alicemoon
April 30th, 2008, 10:06 PM
I have 2 sata drives running XP on one and loaded hardy on the other. Initialy Hardy loads fine (a few issues to sort out but essentialy ok)and I can choose to use hardy or XP without problems from the menu as long as I have the drive hardy is on as the first boot But if I swop and make the drive XP is on the primary drive then windows starts to load gets halfway through loading programs and crashes. If I then swop back to the ubuntu drive hardy loads ok but xp continues to crash until I disconnect the hardy drive. I have tried this with 2 different sata drives that I loaded hardy onto and the same thing happens with both.
Can anyone explain why?
I know I could just leave the primary as the ubuntu drive and never swop but I am worried it might not be stable and my xp will crash down the line. I want to make the swop to ubuntu but still need to run xp for a couple of programs until I can make the final leap.
Any help and explanations appreciated as I have no idea why this is happening.
Can anyone explain why?
I know I could just leave the primary as the ubuntu drive and never swop but I am worried it might not be stable and my xp will crash down the line. I want to make the swop to ubuntu but still need to run xp for a couple of programs until I can make the final leap.
Any help and explanations appreciated as I have no idea why this is happening.