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Kingwin HDD Power Switch Module 6 Switches

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Hi Guys,

I want to buy this Kingwin HDD Power Switch Module 6 Switches
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But I just want to confirm one thing, suppose if I connect two hard disks to it, 1st button connected to 1st hard disk with Win 10 installed and 2nd button connected to 2nd hard disk containing Windows 2012 Server R2, then can I just keep 1st button ON and boot through Windows 10 and then keep only 2nd button ON boot through
Windows 2012 Server R2 WITHOUT changing any boot priority sequence in BIOS setting?

Please answer

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Set up a dual boot? Seems like infinitely less work.
 
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Can't speak for all boards, but I've used boards where this works just fine. They're just going to boot off of whichever drive is on at the time.

Of course, being that they're just two Windows OS and it's easy to setup I like that idea about just dual-booting them. You'll pick one at bootup (one can be default).
 

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Can't speak for all boards, but I've used boards where this works just fine. They're just going to boot off of whichever drive is on at the time.

+1:toast:
You know what, I was not thinking OS and was just thinking drives... however, if you did have the boot order set for the drives, it should look for the first set of boot files... and boot to whatever it finds.
 
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I know and I did dual boot in past but this time I want to setup independent booting OS .
I just read one review about such a hard disks switcher where a guy said that he had like 6 hard drives and he kept one for his daughter one for his son for gaming and 1 drive for wife and let them I use their own OS independently .
 
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Theoretically it would work if only the one drive was powered on at boot up.
 
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Guys, This is a really great device that I have come across, very useful for those who want to do practices on different OS just by the click of buttons.
 
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