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  1. Synergy...that sounds cool!! Ok well i've been doing some thinking about all of this and well... How come I can't just restart my computer and boot from a differen't harddrive each time? I mean seeing as swapping back and forth sounds so impossible what about just booting from a seperate harddrive. But I Don't want to turn off and on each harddrive I just want to be able to have both harddrives hooked up and then lets say I boot from the 80 gb. Well I"d like to be able to only share files to the other harddrive...just not have access to the harddrive itself. I could then set a password on the shared folder. So I use the 80 gb and download stuff and put it in the shared folder, then I restart my computer and boot from the other harddrive....is this really impossible? I think what i'm asking now has got to be extremely easier. Is there anyway I can do this? Just set up 2 harddrives, have a shared folder that both have access to and is password protected, but I only get to boot from one harddrive at a time and I have to restart my computer to do so...but I Don't want to use a power switch swapper. Or is it that I Need a power switch swapper because somehow or another my bootstrap loader wants to read that I have a harddrive and therefore windows is going to want to know what to do with it? I don't get it...why is it so hard to just tell windows to ignore the fact that I have a harddrive and pretend it's not there. Or maybe it could show up I Just couldn't open it without the proper password. See what i'm saying, be able to boot from both Harddrives and just not have the harddrive as a slave drive. If I have to only boot 1 at a time, that's fine with me. I"ll just boot from 1 or the other. If this is indeed impossible...well that sucks and i'll have to use the power switch swap solution...but idk it just seems like this shouldn't be so impossible. THanks again HAK5 rules! SYnergyyyyyyyyyyyy can't wait till i have enough money for that.
  2. Thank you so much, that's the first post so far that slightly answers my question...although the other posts were very nice as well, this one is just the first one that deals with hardware. I'm going to take a moment to say "wess is uberlite!!!! I LOVE WATCHING HIS MODS!!!!" That being said, The reason I want to have to seperate O.S.'s on two seperate harddrives running off of one computer is because of all of my failed O.S.'s in the past. Lets face it, all of the anti virus's and spyware protection programs these are all here in this world because of the internet. This is going to sound extremely ironic but... There are some internet company's that me and my friends have come up with. These internet company's are all entertainment based. We have things such as editing videos and graphic design etc. I want to have 1 harddrive which I use for work, something that I can rely on saving all of my data to without having the utter fear that one day i'll catch a virus. At the same time, I love surfing the net. I love going to all kinds of websites and playing all sorts of games and watching all sorts of videos. So...a while back I was working in Century City for a company called Tech Moves. I was basically setting up computers and mounting monitors, the guy who was basically my boss was doing something very interesting on his dell. He had 2 flat screen monitors and on one monitor he had windows XP running, and on the other he had windows 2000. What was even more interesting is that he had 2 computers hooked up and if he middle clicked/mouse scroller clicked, it would swap between the computers. He had 3 modes, both side by side, 1 for both monitors, and of course the last being switching to the other 1 for both monitors. I asked him about it and he told me some confusing things and said something about having an internal server. I was literally thrilled with the idea of having 1 harddrive for internet use and the other for simply using my computer with offline based applications. This way I could download files I needed such as JDK and JREE and simply send those files to my other harddrive using a shared folder. The best part would be that if I was given a link to some website and I made some huge mistake, or I randomly caught some spyware..it would only be on my 80 gb harddrive as it would be impossible for me to connect to the internet using the 300 gb harddrive..unless of course one day I went and setup a wireless connection. It's so perfect, have one harddrive for games and the other for work. If anything ever went wrong..i wouldn't really mind reinstalling windows as I wouldn't have anything saved on the 80 gb harddrive that was important. This talk about "And as for multiple masters on one chain, that's a simple thing to do. Connect two hard drives to one IDE chain. Set the jumpers for both as master. Wire an SPDT switch between the molexs so that you can choose which to boot." i would love to hear the true answer to that one. I have a roomate who's great with hardware but professional advice from HAK5 would be greatly appreciated. If i have to settle for only being able to boot one harddrive at a time that's ok...i'm fine with restarting my computer everytime I need to switch harddrives. But having both of them up and running at the same time would be amazing!!!!! I'm just not sure how the rest of my computer would enjoy that, my CPU might go nuts and my ram might have a hiss fit. Oh and as for tech specs of my tower: 3.0 ghz pentium duo core 1 gb ram 80 gb harddrive soon to be installed 300 gb sata hard drive dvd rom drive dvd +/- RW drive Radeon 256 mb graphics card running on PCI express. and I also have a 13 in 1 media card reader yada yada yada..... But thanks so much for the advice so far. HAK5 rules!!!!!
  3. Thanks for all of the advice but i'm seriuosly wondering..why is it so impossible to just get a switch? I Can't just have it so that it's like i'm logged on twice? Ok lets take a look at this, so in windows it allows you to log on with two different user names. What I want to do is let my computer know that there are 2 different harddrives...and then i'd like it to boot up both harddrives at once. Let's imagine both harddrives are actually running windows xp. Except theres a catch, each harddrive has no idea the other harddrive "exists" and what I mean by this is that both harddrives hmm. Now that I think about it I guess each harddrive does has to know the other one exists if it's going to drop a file to it. So...how would i Make it that each harddrive thinks the other one is on a server? Yeah thats what I need to know, can I make an internal server inside my own computer? Can I Also make that server so that it attaches 2 harddrives to eachother. Then in the instructions set for each harddrive I want them both to think that they are the master drives of their own server. So server DRive A, and Server Drive B. Then I have a server share point on each drive. This way the drives think the other drive is on a server. So I boot up from my one drive, and then I boot up from the other drive. And well..if the duel boot is impossible then how about simply making the drives on the server system, that way I can drop files to the other drive but if one drive goes to shit then I can just reformat it/reinstall windows. I"d be willing to restart my computer everytime I wanted to boot up from the other harddrive. ANd again here we come to my original statement i'm a hardwarenube...so my remaining question is, IS their only one point that you can install a harddrive to be a master on the system or is their in fact a way to do what i'm asking by connecting/mounting each harddrive as the master? Since someone said this was impossible I think Hak5 might wanta take a look at it! Thanks everyoneeeeee!!!!!! please continue i enjoyed reading the posts!
  4. Fist of HAK5 rules!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love this show! Ok heres my question: I want to have 2 seperate harddrives. 1 harddrive as a master harddrive, this harddrive I don't want to ever give knowledge to the fact that another harddrive exists accept for when I drop files to it from a shared folder. This master harddrive will be my 300 gb harddrive storing all of my important data. I then want another harddrive to be known to me as my "fun and games" harddrive. This harddrive will be running at 80 gb's and will be filled with meaningless junk. NOw heres the thing, my 80 gb I want to have to play and have fun with until someone at some website so kindly gives me an annoying problem and the whole harddrive goes to shit and i Have to reinstall windows. On this particular harddrive I would like to set it so that it erases any data I ever have stored on it "accept for the programs I install with admin rights" and basically I log off and all the data ever downloaded gets erased. my 300 gb, I don't want it to ever connect to the internet and I would like it to be protected from the 80 gb fully accept for one access point which is fully secure from anyone but me using the 80 gb and knowing where a special folder is..which i'd like to disable unless I reinable it. Any suggestions or thoughts on how I could get 2 operating systems on both harddrives and allow them to have a share point but only boot from 1 harddrive at a time...and I must say that i'm as my name goes hackernube JAVA elite. So I Do know how ot program and I have thought of ways to do this, and I Have seen it done before but i'm stumped at the moment. Oh and if possible i'd like to actually have it so both harddrives are booted at the same time it's just that i have a switch inbetween them like if i push say f5 it swaps between harddrives. Any comments or suggestions i'd highly appreciate.
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