Can I reboot WindowsXP onto my master drive and not effect my slave drive?

I bought a used PC tower with an IDE HD and installed the IDE HD from my old tower(the motherboard had died) into it as a slave.

I was using the O/S that came with the used tower without rebooting, (it had no XP discs with it) and things were fine.I was moving files into C from the slave,etc.

I screwed up and caught a nasty malware, Virus Heat, a fake antispyware piece of ***.

I would like to reboot the master with my old XP start up discs and still be able to move stuff out of the slave. I am almost + that I can but want to check.

Can I reboot WindowsXP onto my master drive and not effect my slave drive?norton internet security 2008

You cannot boot with the old drive since it contains registry and hardware information from the old computer.You have to reinstall windows on it (you will not lose your data )

Can I reboot WindowsXP onto my master drive and not effect my slave drive?spyware removal

If you're interested in removing the virus heat malware. just download a program called superantispyware at superantispyware.com. It removed it from my friend's computer.
You can boot from either drive - master and slave don't determine boot order, the BIOS does. (I think you misunderstand what "to boot" means.)
Sure they are completly seperate. Just be sure to select the correct one from the list to start
yes you can, it shouldnt be a problem at all since the startup will only affect your master disks
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Instead of trying to boot from XP startup disks you can boot in safe mode and install an antivirus.

Booting from the startup disks is done usually to install Windows. Or repair Windows if it is corrupted. You just cant use it as Windows.

Whatever way you bootin, the malware will raise its head and you will be left with the same old problem.