There’s nothing complicated about this, and you don’t have to do any renaming – the operating system will do it automatically as soon as it finds the drives present on bootup.
Your 2 hard drives will be C: and D:, and your CD drive will become E:. That will give you a much better system to work with. Currently, you have paid for 2 hard drives, but can only use one of them at a time. And have to open your machine and plug & unplug cables all the time.
This is really a very common dual-boot setup, and both Windows and Linux will work just fine with it.
Do you mean it will work just fine once I upgrade ME to XP or it should work just fine now? I’m going to attempt to upgrade ME to XP right now and see what happens. If it screws up my Linux installation, I’ll just start from scratch.
Okay, I set it up with my old drive with just XP on it as the master, and the new one with XP and Linux on it as the slave.
When it boots up, it automatically boots up with the master. If I click on ‘My Computer’, I can see the slave drive as drive F. How do I switch to the slave drive? I thought I would get a choice as to which drive would boot on start up. I tried with making the new drive the master and that didn’t work either.