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On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Warren Liddell wrote:
> > I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to
> > remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im
> > looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD
> > onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that
> > drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ?
>
> No, because they will be two separate disks.  If you have only one
> attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR.
>
> Regards,

I have always found disk caddies to be a much better solution than dual-boot. 
It guarantees no interference. I learned the hard way some years ago with an 
'accident' with dd on a dual-boot disk...