I am having 2 hard disks in my system. But I do not want to see data of second hard disk to 1st hard disk?

Question

I am having two hard disk in my machine. One hard is having opearating system as Windows XP and another one is having Windows 2000 Server.

During boot up of machine I choose from which hard disk, have to boot my machine. If i boot my machine from my 1st hard disk then it is showing data of another hard disk with drives of another hard disk like C:\, D:\ E:\, J:\.k:\

1st Hard Disk : C:\ , D:\, E:\, OS = Windows XP
2nd Hard Disk : C:\, D:\, E:\, F:\, J:\, K:\, OS = Windows Server 2000

I am wondering how it is happening. Once it is happening then keeping 2 hard disks in my machine no use. If virus comes in 1st hard disk then it will move very easily to another hard disk.

Could you guide me how to stop reading of data of another hard disk in one hard disk?

Thanks & Regards,
Padam Kumar Tripathi
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Reason for having 2 hard disk. One hard i have connected internet and another hard disk does not have internet connection. On 2nd hard disk usually i do programming kind of work. I do not want to connect internet with 2nd one because it contains n number of virus.

Answer 1

First, to stop the question of which to boot from you must enter bios and configure it to only boot from one disc.
if you do not want the other disc to show up, why even have it connected?
You can deactivate the second IDE on bios (on MOST MOBOs) and then you will not have access to it.
, so again why have it there?
You can unplug the power to it
Again why have it?
so i think you just want to avoid choosing each time you boot.
You leave it to boot from the disc you wish and diable other boot options

Answer 2

Go to Computer management > Disk Management.

On the right pane, select the partition you don't want to be detected. Right click and choose "Change drive letters and paths". Click "remove".

This will hide the particular partition from the Windows installation you have currently booted from.

Do the same for the other Windows Installation also.

Good luck!

Answer 3

As long as both hard drives are connected to the motherboard, then data from both of them will appear in the drive list regardless which drive was used to boot the system.

Answer 4

When you flip to your laptop you'll be able to decide upon which running method you desire to make use of. After you go online to both one it is going to continuously exhibit the opposite HDD so long as they're foremated prperly.The simplest strategy to disguise one in all them might be to unplug it after which boot.

Answer 5

run the win 2000 hd on a different computer.