If all you are trying to do is make use of the old hard drive, there should be no problem. Just boot Win 8 and it should see your old drive as another drive letter, probably E: if you have a DVD drive as drive D:. If the old drive does not show up at first, then run Disk Manager to assign a drive letter to it. I am not sure on Win 8 how to get to Disk Manager, but try searching for "diskmgmt.msc".
Peter Shkabara
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From: V Vishwanathan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 12:36 PM
Subject: dual boot
HI ALL,
Thinking that my hdd (with win xp pro) was dead I switched over to a new one
and installed win8.
Now I have a feeling that the xp hdd may have some life.
I have 4 sata ports in my mobo and one is used by win8.
Suppose I hook up the xp hdd to the 2nd sata port and power it on
would I be able to test (after modifying the BIOS) my hunch or would I screw up the whole system.?
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