Will WINDOWS PCI cards with HD's be damaged by OSX

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My AMD64 DAW went down on me today, not sure if its the memory, cpu or motherboard, it does NOT boot up at all nor does the green light go on, everything is warrantied so am not too worried, then I got to thinking...

 

 

The Memory on the AMD64 was the OCZ Platinm CCD3 which they don't make anymore, its warrantied for life, the gigabyte K8NS is a 3 year I think (I have one more year) and the CPU is 3 years, still have one more year, either way, I'm still going to have to re-authourize many many instruments and plug ins.

 

Anyway, my HACK n Tosh is a stronger CPU, even though its not DUO CORE 2, its a D930 which I think is stronger than a AMD64 3200.

 

So here is the deal, I have in the AMD system, 4 PATA drives, on the HAC 2 Serial Drives.....plus of course two burners one of which is a dual layer....

 

So, the motherboard is a mini GTX D945GTP, it has two PCI slots, so, I could in theory add all 4 Hard drives as my audio device is FIREWIRE which works on both the hack and PC. but this would pretty much leave me no room for the burner, so I might need to get just another LARGE fast PATA drive and remove two of the drives......

 

It sounds like a lot of work but it will be worth it I think as it should be a faster windows machine anyway......plus the case I have will give the mini plenty of room to breathe and I have a 550 PSU.

 

So I am thinking of somehow having the 2nd HACKnTOSH drive REMAIN in the system at all times and use a removable SATA for the HACK and removable SATA for the WINDOWS drives, my questions, and this is where the genious part comes in, is when I have some PCI cards in the windows setup and then boot to the HACK n TOSH, being NTFS, they should just look like they aren't there correct? My worry is that I don't want to destroy any PC songs, projects, software etc......these are things I need to figure out while I wait for my RMA's.

I want to build a PC DAW with windows, removable PATA I guess and when I want to use the MAC, switch out the drive.

 

Either way, my system is going to see hardware changes even with exact same hardware from RMA and I am going to have to re-authorize or reinstall a lot of stuff which is going to take all day, so, if I can get more power using my HACK n TOSH CPU with XP, all the better...

 

Advice appreciated!

 

Thanks

 

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Oh and to make things interesting, I will be adding a nice GPU card for the windows machine as I have dual LCD's displays so I have a KVR switch so how would I use the DUAL Monitor when using windows, and then the on-board for OSX?

 

Is any of this even possible??

 

Thanks, just read the bench marks at toms hardware, the D930 (except for memory) is about 2X faster than the AMD...