tha_toadman Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 I'm thinking that I want to run a HD selector so I can dual boot OSX and XP Pro. I need it in black, supports SATA, and only need it for 2 drives (or 4 or if I have to). Does anyone know where I can find this on the 'net? 5.25 inch would be find...I've googled for about 30 minutes and just found 1 company in Canada that makes them...help! Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeplessMedia Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Why do you feel that you need a physical selector? if you use Acronis disk director / OS selector you can simply specify the disk to boot from a graphical boot menu and hide the disks from each other at boot if you are concerned about corruption...although It would be kinda cool to have a chrome toggle switch on the front of your computer with an apple logo on one end and a windows logo on the other Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-259743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 If you're going to install XP and Mac OS onto separate drives, you don't even need the Acronis OS selector. You can just select the hard drive from the bios by tapping the F8 key (or esc, depending on your mobo) at the startup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-259750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Yep and if i do nothing (no f8) it always boot osx, prefered it the other way, but you cant have everything. And no switching is no option , windows is sata and osx is pata Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-259829 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 i have 2 sata's in my machine - 1) OSX and 2)WinXP for now, i'm just physically plugging/unplugging the drives but a product such as what I'm referring too, doesn't seem to exist except for one site (the canadian one that I was referring too) SATA HD Selector i'm going to keep looking but right now, this doesn't look to promising... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-260044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 question for you all... Does Acronis OS Selector still slow down the overall boot time of the PC? I remember over the year that people here said it slowed their machines down quite badly. Is this still true? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-260048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Sadly yes, Acronis still slows your PC boot time horribly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-260055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 bummer! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-260057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phor2zero Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I just use the old chain0 boot method. Using WinXP's boot manager doesn't really slow it down much at all, I have a 5 second time out to choose OS X or else it boots XP by default. Note: I have one of those "difficult" hackint0sh's --- AMD, nForce4 etcetera, and chain0 has always worked perfectly -- even with deadmoo back in 2005. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-260060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiGiCiD@L Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Sorry to bring this back from the dead, but just in case anyone is looking for this solution still... http://www.industechnologies.com/products_...p;ProductID=176 Considering the cost (i.e. much more than a brand new 500GB drive) I don't know why someone would want this just to switch between XP/Vista and OSX, however there are some cases where it might be desireable. I use bios to select boot (F8 method mentioned above), because I hate bootloaders. However, if you totally want to partition your OSes from each other and have easy selection and identification of which state the hardware is currently in - this will do the trick for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36384-hard-drive-selector/#findComment-751752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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