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okay, swap racks might be complicated, but I definitely favoured 2 hard drives over one partitioned HD.[/b]
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The racks also have one added advantage, though making full use of it can cost quite a bit.
Each rack must be connected to a separate IDE channel, and drives present in both must be jumpered as Master. In the machine's BIOS, set primary and secondary master drives to autodetect.
What do you get? Well, of course swapping the drives will swap the system that boots up. No worries about multiboot, no nothing.
But, if you get a third rack and install it in a 5,25" USB enclosure, you can use that combination to quickly - and very conveniently - transfer data to and from the oldschool unit to your modern computer, including creating complete backups of its drives with whatever drive imaging software you have installed on your modern machine (like Paragon Exact Image that I'm using).