Dual booting separate mac os from separate internal drives

Currently running Mac OS 10.4.11 with Bootcamp and Windows XP Pro. running on Primary HD drive on a Mac Pro 1.1 with a Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor - 2.66 ghz, and 3 GB of ram. Would like to install a new 3TB hard drive (computer has 3 internal slots for hard drives) and install Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and then upgrade that to OS X Lion (10.7).
Can I then start machine and by holding Option key choose which operating system to utilize? Reason for this madness is that some of the "old" software on OS 10.4.11 may not work with Snow Leopard. Will the machine recognize both operating systems and allow me the choice to boot from the original hard drive or from the new (separate) hard drive by utilizing the Option key?

Yes. The Option key allows selection of any bootable partition on any drive.

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HD #2 - G5 Backup
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I want to backup the Macintosh HD onto the G5 Backup but I'm getting the following error:
http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/timemachine/error.png
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http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/time_machine/machd.png
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Message was edited by: powermixx

powermixx wrote:
I want to backup the Macintosh HD onto the G5 Backup but I'm getting the following error:
http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/timemachine/error.png
I've checked the disc usage and it appears I have enough on the G5 Backup to fit everything from Macintosh HD.
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I'm puzzled why it says the same disc is being used. These are (2) separate drives, not partitions.
It's probably warning you, as it should, about +G5 Bootable's+ backups being on the same drive as it's backups (when that drive fails, as they all do sooner or later, you risk losing everything). But it will do it, if you click +Use Selected Volume.+
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Along with my main drive in my G4, I have 2 additional internal western digital dives. So I am wondering if it is safe to use one of these extra drives as a back up drive for the other western digital working drive instead of using a separate external drive.
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FYI, I have also have super duper.
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[ramfs /]#
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heleos wrote:
This line:
Waiting for 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH-201005...
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https://www.apple.com/support/osx/
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keg55 wrote:
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Rather easy enough to do. People install XP and Vista all the time on 2, 3rd or 4th drive in Mac Pro. I know Vista 64-bit on Mac Pro has best support for addressing RAM and drivers.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1511099
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1510044
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