[Ham-Computers] Dual boot problem update

[WØQFC]

After a frustrating week of working on this problem I finially got it! HP says that they do not support a dual boot system on their machines and it will not work. . . . 

Some background:

First, I tried adding a second hard drive and wanted to boot XP from that drive. Did not work.

Second, I tried re-partitioning the original 1TB drive with two equal partitions, installing Win 7 on one and XP on the other; Win 7 would work FB but XP had a lot of freeze-ups, IE would close on it's own and several other problems.

Third, the only way I could get the dual boot system to work ok was the following:
    First, set the controller to IDE instead of AHCI.
    Second, install the original 1TB drive as primary and
    Third, install additional drive as secondary.

Then I installed Win7 on the primary and XP on the secondary.  VIOL! It worked......

BTW, the machine is a new HP 6318f.

Just thought that someone might be able to use this info.

73

Gene, WØQFC