I don't think so...  (Unless...)

I have had multiple (Win-XP-Pro) drives in systems, all with primary active
drives, and all bootable in that or other machines...

In the above scenario, the one thing you want to be careful of is to NOT
let a Win-XP drive from a different machine try to boot a machine it
was NOT installed from. That will (if it uses WPA) trigger product activation
and render the "foreign" drive bootable to the point of the error screen
that says you need to activate (if it even gets that far...)

So...  Make SURE it is trying to boot from the _correct_ drive, but if it is
then other drives will be treated like "data drives"...

                                                  Rick Glazier


From: "joseph marty" <[log in to unmask]>
> You still have an OS on the old 20 gig drive?  It is probably trying to boot to that OS when XP is already up and running.  That
would cause it to hang up. You need to clean off the OS on the old drive unless your going to set it up to dual boot.
>
> >Hello, PCBUILD ,
> >I had bought a new 40 GB Segate Baracuda 7200 RPM HDD, I already own a Fujitsu 20 GB 5200 RPM HDD, when i  installed XP (SP1 and
Sp2) on the new HDD and then after installing connected the second 20 gb hdd it detects the HDD shows found new hardware and hangs,
i change the master-slave settings and then booted using my old 20 Gb hdd but it does not shows new 40 gb HDD. the 40 gb HDD has a
Single NTFS partition, while 20 gb has four FAT32 partitions, Pls. Help.

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