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    I have run several different OSs within a virtual environment and never seen any adverse issue with it, just make sure you have PLENTY of RAM.

    IMO a 2nd hard drive with a full install would be the absolute best way (as fastgame suggested ) and if you don't want to dual boot, either swap drives out or get a hard drive switch. I know zipp51 found one and it's layin around here somewhere in another thread...
    Last edited by rik; August 9th, 2006 at 15:16 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rik View Post
    IMO a 2nd hard drive with a full install would be the absolute best way
    I think I've maxed out my IDE controllers...
    1)Hard disk.
    2)DVD Drive
    3)CD-writer Drive
    4)ZIP Drive
    5)Floppy drive

    Actually I'm unsure how I have all these as it is- I thought each (E)IDE controller could have 2 devices as master/slave. Unless the floppy drive is a special case I don't understand - I'm sure I have only two(E)IDE controllers in my 6-year-old PC.
    Perhaps I could remove the (pointless now a 1Gb USB key costs less than a single 100Mb Zip Disk) ZIP drive and put in a 2nd hard drive?

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