multiple XP installs on different drives

[shankar]

Hi,

Somehow I need to be able to do this.

Windows Professional XP OS on disks A and C. I should be able to choose at startup whether I want the OS to boot from A or C.

Now, if the OS from disk A is used for booting, then after Windows starts it should not be able to access C at all (which means C should not visible to the OS in any way) although A and B are visible.



Now, if the OS from disk C is used for booting, then after Windows starts it should not be able to access A and B at all (which means A and B should not visible to the OS in any way) although C is visible.

Any help would be appreciated
thanks,

Shankar

 

[folken]

I think there are 2 ways you could do that:
1) Setup those disk access rights on an account on a domain controller.
2) Get a hard drive switching system so you physically switch to the hd you want to boot off of. In a switched system no hd can see any other hd.

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I've got the OS installed twice on seperate drives. During boot the BIOS asks me which OS to boot from. While in one OS I can access the other OS drive but not The MY DOCUMENTS in the other OS because of no permission. If you want to hide the entire drive, there are programs that will do that. Seems to me one of them is actually called HideDrive or something like that. Check around at the download sites...

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[shankar]

folken,

Thanks for reply. The second solution sounds interesting. I have never heard of physical hard drive switching. This is exactly the kind of solution I am looking for. Can you please give more details ?

-Shankar

 

[folken]

If you have 3 hard drives I'd look into something like this: <A HREF="http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main/Romtec-Trios.html" target="_new">Romtec Trios</A>

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Or there are removable HDD Trays.

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