Twin Hard Drive question

If I run a registry cleaner on my slave hard drive,(40Gb Windows XP home) and then delete everything it advises me to delete, will that have any effect on my Master hard drive, an 80 Gb Windows XP home, which is my boot drive?

Thanks

 

Unless you are dual booting with operating systems then everything you choose to delete will be deleted from the registry. Master & slave. If you are going to use a registry cleaner make sure it has a restore option just in case. If you are dual booting then the other oprerating system will be left alone.

 

Thanks for replying.
I should have stated that I would be booting to the slave, using the F8 boot menu. Both hard drives have XP home installed, so I would boot to the slave and run the reg cleaner in that drive. I was hoping that would keep the other drive untouched. That way I can mess around and learn a little about the registry without wrecking the computer for the rest of the family, as it boots to the master when it is turned on.

 

Yep that should work OK. The other install of xp will be isolated from the cleaner.

You should take a look at using xcopy with xp dual booting. If one systen gets unstable it takes about 10 minutes to replace it with a fresh install.