Thats what I do as well on my Dell desktop - the F12 boot selection. One other thing I did was to have windows "hide" the other HD not booting from so that I would not mess anything up since I booting one HD with Win 7 and the other one with Win XP.


>Charles,
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>On my Thinkpad if you press F12 during startup you can select the boot device from a list of those available.
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>The other big performance increase I got was with large PST files (1Gb+) and Outlook. By locating these on the SSD drive searching within Outlook became usable rather than an excuse to get a coffee. Again though I would reiterate the need to be sure of your backup strategies,
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>regards Andy