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Hello,

I am soon upgrading to a new PC and up to now have happily been using Logic in combination with Pulsar. I also took advantage of the crossover deal to Cubase SX when it was launched last year(seeing it wasn't too expensive) and now I have both Logic and Cubase.
Now this may qualify as a stupid question, but my dilemma is, when I buy my new System should I buy something with a removable drive? On one drive I would have Logic and on another drive I would run Cubase SX, therefore having them running on seperate drives so that they would not conflict with each other and that way I would keep them truly seperate from each other. Or should I not be so anal retentive and have them both installed on the same hard drive because there would be no conflicts?
I realise that partitioning would be a way to deal with this, but let me add that I am not a big fan of partitioning.

Thanks in advance for your response(s).

My answer: Partitioning

creating 2 primary partitions is the same as two hard drives with two systems, the only difference is that a boot manager lets you choose at startup what system to use instead of changing manually the hard disk each time.

Install the OS, configure it, tweak, install common programs, then copy the partition to another one: the trick is done, now install cubase or logic in the partition you prefer. (same steps for the two hard drives)

Good musik making,
Fede

P.S.: now you have both, which do you think is better between Logic and SX?

Fede,

Thank you for your response. Quite a few people have told me that having 2 primary partitions is probably the best solution. The only problem is that I don't have any experience with partitioning and creating a dual boot system. I've been told that it is a bit complicated if you don't really know what you are doing.
With regard to your question "which is better, Logic or Cubase?" I don't know, as I haven't tried out Cubase yet.

If both of your OSes will be Windows XP, the dual boot is not problem at all. All you need do, is ensure you have space on your HD (and preferably empty space, so you can freely do the partitioning).
When you install another XP to different partition, it will make it dual boot automatically...

Thank you Spoimala for replying. Excuse my ignorance, but because I have no experience with partitioning, does partitioning in essence mean having two "seperate" systems in one machine that are truly independant from each other and therefore do not interfere with each other?

Thanks in advance for your response

Yes, the only reference to the 2 OS'es is a boot.ini, which makes for the boot menu you'll get. In the menu you choose which OS you want to boot in.

If you want, you can share email databases etc between different OS'es, but that's for later