I'm installing my second HD now. I'd like to configure the system so that on startup the system automatically boots to the master HS, unless within a set time period (60 seconds) I choose to boot to the slave HD?
When I had two different OS's on one HD somebody set this up for me, so I expect it can be done similarly for two HD's as well. In the BIOS the slave HD will be set as the secondary boot device, but on occasion I may want to boot to the slave drive so I can go to the Windows Update page and d/l all the critical updates for my slave that it needs. Since Microsoft automatically installs critical updates instead of allowing you to d/l them as .exe, I think its a safe guess that with a slave drive as a backup boot device, when you d/l critical updates as you are running your OS on your master drive, the updates are not installed on your slave drive.
When I had two different OS's on one HD somebody set this up for me, so I expect it can be done similarly for two HD's as well. In the BIOS the slave HD will be set as the secondary boot device, but on occasion I may want to boot to the slave drive so I can go to the Windows Update page and d/l all the critical updates for my slave that it needs. Since Microsoft automatically installs critical updates instead of allowing you to d/l them as .exe, I think its a safe guess that with a slave drive as a backup boot device, when you d/l critical updates as you are running your OS on your master drive, the updates are not installed on your slave drive.