BIOS boot order - Win10 and WinXP on separate physical drives

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Reginald

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I wish to add a secondary hard drive that already has Windows XP Pro SP2 installed on it to a PC running Windows 10 Pro. There's a warning in the article below about the BIOS boot order. So I should keep the BIOS boot order of my PC as is? Meaning Win10 hdd first and WinXP hdd second and then install EasyBCD on the WinXP drive? Is that correct?
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If you’re installing Windows XP to a separate physical drive, do not disconnect the Windows Vista or Windows 7 drive, and do not change the drive boot order in the BIOS. This will not help and will make it terribly difficult to get your dual-boot working again!
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See answer in your other thread.
W10 has to control the boot. Leave it top of the BIOS queue. Install EasyBCD on W10.
 
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