Swapping system locations on dual boot system using ATIH 2011.
My PC is dual boot Windows XP/Windows 10. It started out as an XP system, but then I set up as a dual boot XP/Windows 7 machine by creating a partition on one of my hard disks and installing Windows 7. Then I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10 . Since it is the original OS the system disk for XP is disk0 which is an SSD. The system disk for W10 is a partition on disk1 which is a hard disk. At this point I consider Windows 10 my "main" system, but I still need to keep the dual boot configuration to run some older software.
So what I'd like to do is "swap" the locations of the system disks, to move the system disk for Windows 10 to disk0/SSD, and move the system disk for XP to the partition on disk1. I have Acronis True Image Home 2011 and have backed up both system disks.
My thought was to restore the Windows 10 system to the SSD, and to restore the XP system to the partition I'm currently using for Windows 10. My assumption is this will do what I want and when I boot, it will behave the same way giving me the choice of what to boot from, only that now for Windows 10 I'll be booting of the SSD and for XP I'll be booting of the hard drive.
Will this work? If so, what are the specific steps to take with Acronis True Image Home 2011 to restore a backup to a different disk/partition? If there is something additional I need to do to make it work and boot properly please let me know.
Right now everything works fine, I'd just like the Windows 10 system which I use all the time now to enjoy the faster speed of the SSD. However I don't want to screw up a working setup. So if this is a bad idea please let me know.
Thanks for any help.
Steve


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