Dual boot with Win 7 on both

[cowboyfan1960]

I have 2 hard drives both with Windows 7. My main hard drive I did first. Then I did my 2nd hard drive. When I restart my computer, I do not see both hard drives so I can select which one I want to use. Please help with this. Thank you

 

[jitpublisher]

Whay would you have 2 hard drives with the same OS on both of them?

 

[cowboyfan1960]

Because one is my main hard drive and the other one I am making into a gaming hard drive.

 

[zhihao50]

should be under systems -> advanced systems -> start up and recovery
otherwise check msconfig -> boot

 

[jitpublisher]

Why don't you just install your games on the second drive?

 

[cowboyfan1960]

As far as system and recovery is concerned all I see is Time to display list of operating systems - 30 sec. Shows windows 7 as default OS.
And as far as ms config, it only shows 1 windows 7.

 

[cowboyfan1960]

Why don't you just install your games on the second drive?

That is what I am going to do, but I would like to have the option of booting into either one.

 

[jitpublisher]

You are using 2 different Windows install disks, right? There are even more complications if you are trying to install the exact same software with the exact same serial numbers 2 different places at the same time.
Honestly, what you are trying is overly complicated for no good reason. Can you imagine the complications that are going to arise from running the exact same OS in 2 different places on the same system? Driver updates, Windows updates, just to mention a few are going to become a mess.

 

[cowboyfan1960]

You are using 2 different Windows install disks, right? There are even more complications if you are trying to install the exact same software with the exact same serial numbers 2 different places at the same time.
Honestly, what you are trying is overly complicated for no good reason. Can you imagine the complications that are going to arise from running the exact same OS in 2 different places on the same system? Driver updates, Windows updates, just to mention a few are going to become a mess.

I did it a long time ago until I had to redo my computer. Now not sure how to do it again.