nighthawk475
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Ok this is what happened:
My family had two vistas both of which were pretty good at the time. My mom who has a home business ran shiping software on of the vistas. I ran my games on another vista. My moms computer broke (the mother board to be specific.) and in order to use her shiping software she had to switch the two hard drives. so now my gameing hard drive is in a computer that now longer works.
I was wondering if it is possible to run both hard drives (of the same OS) on the same computer
i know my computer has a slot to fit another CD/Hard drive (i think thats what it is for)
I have looked around already on this topic and right now all i have seen is people useing BIOS and other things to switch between the two hard drives on start-up. i am looking to be able to go in to a folder like my computer and then be able to select files on both hard drives at the sme time after start up.
**EDIT**
thanks for your post Sysprog you answered more than one of my questions and i may have to do what you said but in the mean time do you or anyone else know if there would be a way to start a program off of the D drive, as that would make my life much easier (if it helps the exact program im thinking of is Steam and multiple games, but more importantly the many addons i have already installed on that hard drive, there are too many to copy over)
also another idea that i thought of was changing the mother board on my broken computer.
it a Vista-64 bit, HP pavillion, AMD Phenom triple core, none of the parts replaced after buying it from a store
how many components are on board for this version of vista and what is general price range to get the mother board replaced
(either by me or a proffesional)
Thankyou in advance
-Nighthawk475
**EDIT**
ok thankyou for all the information, just so you know iv decided to just go on and get a new motherboard, iv already talked to a local computer store about this and i know what im looking for i will be contacting hp soon.
thankyou for your help and time
My family had two vistas both of which were pretty good at the time. My mom who has a home business ran shiping software on of the vistas. I ran my games on another vista. My moms computer broke (the mother board to be specific.) and in order to use her shiping software she had to switch the two hard drives. so now my gameing hard drive is in a computer that now longer works.
I was wondering if it is possible to run both hard drives (of the same OS) on the same computer
i know my computer has a slot to fit another CD/Hard drive (i think thats what it is for)
I have looked around already on this topic and right now all i have seen is people useing BIOS and other things to switch between the two hard drives on start-up. i am looking to be able to go in to a folder like my computer and then be able to select files on both hard drives at the sme time after start up.
**EDIT**
thanks for your post Sysprog you answered more than one of my questions and i may have to do what you said but in the mean time do you or anyone else know if there would be a way to start a program off of the D drive, as that would make my life much easier (if it helps the exact program im thinking of is Steam and multiple games, but more importantly the many addons i have already installed on that hard drive, there are too many to copy over)
also another idea that i thought of was changing the mother board on my broken computer.
it a Vista-64 bit, HP pavillion, AMD Phenom triple core, none of the parts replaced after buying it from a store
how many components are on board for this version of vista and what is general price range to get the mother board replaced
(either by me or a proffesional)
Thankyou in advance
-Nighthawk475
**EDIT**
ok thankyou for all the information, just so you know iv decided to just go on and get a new motherboard, iv already talked to a local computer store about this and i know what im looking for i will be contacting hp soon.
thankyou for your help and time
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