I am thinking of getting a separate SATA HD to dedicate to the FS with separete OS and everything. Has anyone done this and to what results? I have a Dell XPS gen2. What brand of HD would you recommend? Would you partition it and put the FS on the other partition or leave it puting all my fs stuff on the intact HD no partitions? Anyother recommendations would be appreciated. CheersFlygirl

Some say having XP on two drives is possible, usually to transfer data from an older drive with XP on it, then reformatting that older drive for use as whatever. I'd do some Googling to find out what may work, and be sure to check post dates, or that the info includes current XP SP2. Many say it's a recipe for fatally corrupting your first install, if you get it working at all. As to drive brands, I have a few WD's, good drives, but I really like Seagate (just got a 160GB SATA; quick, quiet, cool running too). The warranty (5 years) is worth the extra few dollars. Maxtor, uhmmm, not here. My $0.02jb

Hi,I have two Western Digital SATA drives installed on my computer. I just finished installing Windows XP Pro on both hard drives, it works fine.During bootup I have the option to boot to my C drive operating system or my D drive operating system.My C drive (74 GB, 10,000 RPM, 8MB Cache SATA Raptor) has Windows XP Pro installed, as well as all my needed programs and files.My D drive (150 GB, 10,000 RPM, 16 MB Cache SATA Raptor) has Windows XP Pro installed, as well as FS2004 and all my flight sim addons. Nothing goes on this drive except my Flight Sim program.

Mike,I'm glad someone had some good info on this, it obviously wasn't me ;-) Thanks for the heads-up, I'm sure the original poster will appreciate it too. I based my response on things I've read and also my own experience with dual-booting (98SE/XP). That dual-boot was from one drive however, and while easy to accomplish (MS gives clear directions on the how-to) left me with the thought that two identical MS OS's can't co-exist on one machine.As an aside, having just gotten a SATA drive, and installing it with an exsisting IDE boot drive, some issues up came over on the Dell fora (my Dell desktop is an 8300) which came down to 'if ya got mixed drive types, gotta boot from the SATA'. Not so, but some folks are rather insistent there that it's impossible. I'm wondering now if I put XP on the SATA drive also if I'd work. The drive is vid capture only, so not a big deal to try, outside of the install time. Mebbe on a *real* slow day :-)So, with the screaming Raptor and quick box Im guessing FS runs moderately well lol...jbThe FS/Vid box:Dimension 8300 XPPro/SP23.2 GHz P4/800 FSB HT (enabled) i875P 4x256 PC3200 400MHz DDR-SDRAM (Crucial aka Micron)ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB 40GB Seagate ST340014A 2MB 720080GB Western Digital WD800JB 8MB 7200160GB Seagate ST3160827AS 8MB 7200 SATA Hitachi CD-RW internalPlextor 716UF external USB2.0/FW DVD-RW HS USB2.0 connected)Viewcast Osprey 210 A/V capture card 3.1.2 drvrs.IBM G78 17"/Princeton E705 17" ancient, but hey, they work :-)