The current 64-bit operating system does not have a Chinese version, and due to compatibility issues, the establishment of an independent multi-system has clearly become the best solution. Many friends have purchased SATA hard drives when configuring 64-bit hardware platforms, but there are also a lot of friends who have SATA and PATA hard drives. Here is how to build 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP independent on these two hard drives. Dual system. One. Setting up SATA hard disk
Description: The hard disk used for this test is: Seagate 40GB of PATA interface and Seagate 80GB hard disk of SATA interface. How to set up a SATA hard disk is determined by the motherboard. This article takes the setting method on the Soltek SL-K8AV2-R1L motherboard as an example. When you want to use this feature, please refer to your own motherboard manual. 1. Set the SATA hard disk to IDE mode. After entering BiOS, select “Integrated Peripherals” on the main interface to enter the setting interface. Set “OnChip SATA” item to “nabled”. Set “SATA Mode” item to “IDE”. 2. Select Active Hard Disk
Select the second item in the BIOS main interface, “Advanced BiOS Features”. Then select "Hard DISK Boot Priority" to observe the following: 1.Ch0 M: ST340014A 2.Bootable: Add-in Cords 3.Ch3 M: ST380011AS The first is the IDE hard disk, the third is the SATA hard disk, press The page-turning button on the keyboard selects which hard disk to install the system on. For convenience of description, we will refer to the selected hard disk as the active hard disk. Note: Select “First Boot Device” under “Advanced BiOS Features” to set Boot order of CDs, hard drives, etc. But you can't choose SATA hard drives. How to make SATA hard drives boot first, you have to set them under “Hard DISK Boot Priority.” 2. Installation system and conversion Through the previous discussion, we have been able to Select the active hard drive. Now all you have to do is install any operating system on an active hard drive and then set another hard drive to live. Move the hard drive and install another system. After the installation is complete, you can access the contents of another hard disk in Windows. This way, when you install the system on one hard disk, it will not hide another hard disk and will not generate a boot menu. It is very convenient to access another hard disk under the operating system, and it is very convenient to read and write data of another hard disk. However, it is relatively troublesome to switch from one system to another, and must be set in BiOS according to the method provided above. Perhaps this is the only drawback of installing dual systems on dual hard drives. If you install dual systems in the usual way, the two systems will rely on the boot.ini file to form the boot menu. If the 32-bit system fails, especially when 32 After the bit system fails to boot or the boot.ini file fails, the 64-bit system is in a paralyzed state, which brings great inconvenience to the maintenance. However, there is no such problem in building a dual-drive dual-system. At the same time, each hard disk is more independent. Even if one of them is damaged, the other can work independently, which is unmatched by a single hard disk and multiple systems. From the implementation method, there are also great differences, mainly reflected in the choice of installation carrier.