- Joined
- Sep 29, 2012
- Location
- Fresno, CA
I am in the process of revamping my Dell E520, after wasting my entire weekend attempting to clone my multi-partitioned 1Tb HDD onto a 240Gb SSD (with every attempt resulting in a failure to create a bootable drive and my XP install disk only crashing with a BSOD), I decided to use the SSD to install Win7 64bit and keep my XP 32bit on its original HHD.
The system is now running under either drive, but I am now having to manually unplug the HDD when I want to use Win7, so I am hoping to devise a way to make a keyboard selection during bootup or otherwise set a timed default. After searching a bit on the subject from my understanding the best option is to use EasyBCD. Thus, I would just like to confirm that is the best option in my case and that it will not cause any issues between the drives or when running programs; and also that I will still have access to either drive while operating the opposing OS?
The system is now running under either drive, but I am now having to manually unplug the HDD when I want to use Win7, so I am hoping to devise a way to make a keyboard selection during bootup or otherwise set a timed default. After searching a bit on the subject from my understanding the best option is to use EasyBCD. Thus, I would just like to confirm that is the best option in my case and that it will not cause any issues between the drives or when running programs; and also that I will still have access to either drive while operating the opposing OS?