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running a second hard drive with a different os in the same computer can it be done?

im running Linux as the primary and using Ubuntu hardy 8.04 on my main hard drive i have a second hard drive from a older machine that stopped working but found out that the hard drive was still intact with the OS on it which is xp have allot of stuff on it can i run it ? as a slave or boot from it back and forth form the primary hard drive?

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smittyfox1168
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maybe, if you plug it in as slave linux should be able to access the files on there.

Bye. Jasen

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Jasen Betts

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