Hello,
I have a good laptop HDD with XP installed. MY internal HDD has Vista as OS. Can I buy an external case with usb and run 2 systems, only booting one at a time to my Acer Aspire. In other words my Acer is running Vista Home Prem. on a SATA drive now. Can I add an IDE drive with an external adapter box, and USB connection running XP? I think the USB connection would transmitt as fast as laptop, am I correct? I realize if the acer laptop recognizes the drive, I can only run one OS, there by one hard drive. I have the extra hard drive, so it is cheaper than by a new larger one.
I have a good laptop HDD with XP installed. MY internal HDD has Vista as OS. Can I buy an external case with usb and run 2 systems, only booting one at a time to my Acer Aspire. In other words my Acer is running Vista Home Prem. on a SATA drive now. Can I add an IDE drive with an external adapter box, and USB connection running XP? I think the USB connection would transmitt as fast as laptop, am I correct? I realize if the acer laptop recognizes the drive, I can only run one OS, there by one hard drive. I have the extra hard drive, so it is cheaper than by a new larger one.