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<blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 2687709" data-attributes="member: 478">Not sure if you are allowed to do that legally, I think you can only install one copy on one machine, but technically you can have as many working OS installed on your system as you like. You just need one primary partition for each of them (can even be on the same hard drive, don't even need a second one). And you should be aware, that those partitions are not accessible from the other installations, which basically means, that all software you installed there needs to be installed again on the other installation. Of course, you can install them to another partition, which is accessible to all primaries, but you would still need to install the software once with every OS installation then to have the registry updated properly and this might also lead to some screwy results, if any working data is stored in the registry.If you want to add another OS to your second hard drive, you can simply use a program to alter partitions (i.e. Partition Magic, maybe XP even has something to do that included). Then you can select some free space on the hard drive and designate it as a primary partition. Once you have a primary partition, you should be able to install the OS there and boot from it. That would be your C: drive then.What I'm not entirely sure of is, whether you can boot from a slave drive, which your second one most likely is. Might be, that the hard drive needs to be the master drive.ByeThanee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thanee, post: 2687709, member: 478"] Not sure if you are allowed to do that legally, I think you can only install one copy on one machine, but technically you can have as many working OS installed on your system as you like. You just need one primary partition for each of them (can even be on the same hard drive, don't even need a second one). And you should be aware, that those partitions are not accessible from the other installations, which basically means, that all software you installed there needs to be installed again on the other installation. Of course, you can install them to another partition, which is accessible to all primaries, but you would still need to install the software once with every OS installation then to have the registry updated properly and this might also lead to some screwy results, if any working data is stored in the registry. If you want to add another OS to your second hard drive, you can simply use a program to alter partitions (i.e. Partition Magic, maybe XP even has something to do that included). Then you can select some free space on the hard drive and designate it as a primary partition. Once you have a primary partition, you should be able to install the OS there and boot from it. That would be your C: drive then. What I'm not entirely sure of is, whether you can boot from a slave drive, which your second one most likely is. Might be, that the hard drive needs to be the master drive. Bye Thanee [/QUOTE]

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