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help creating dual boot
Should I have ME and XP on different partitions of the __same__ hard drive, or should I put them on different hard drives? I want to keep them both for If doing a genuine dual-boot off different partitions, that may not be needed. Also, I do NOT want to use XP's built-in boot manager. I've seen it on a friend's

Dual Boot using different hard drives
I do have to hard drives in my current computer. Would it be better to use one for each OS and if so how do I choose which to boot from? Or you can put lilo into the linux partition and use a different boot manager, but this solution is inelegant. Installing a new operating system on a machine having an

Dual Boot with Windows NT and Linux Mandrake 9.1
As I'm sure you know, "drive" letters are not assigned to hard drives, but to volumes (primary partitions and logical drives) on the physical disks. I want to dual boot the two operating systems? Un able to change drive letter to D: in windows vista home basic? Believe this is reason I can't boot both systems.

Dual Boot on separate hard drives
Skeldof skeldof-SPA...@yahoo.co.uk alt os linux mandrake In <46051b66.0109261216.721d8...@posting.google.com>, "Jeff Roetman" <j...@iserv.net> muttered something along the lines: Hello everyone, Here is my dilemma when it comes to Linux-Mandrake 8.0/Win98SE dual boot with 2 physical hard drives.

Reviews of PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe, Fluxbuntu 7.10 and Other ...
How many hard drives: 2 hard drives running a performance RAID configuration I assume that "performance RAID" means RAID 0, which stripes data onto two or more It is so easy to create a dual-boot system that some users have done it unintentionally. So I wanted to know if your system has ever been set up for

Dual Boot - Win 2000 / Win 98) Drive letters problem (plse help?)
Can I install my old hard-drive with Windows 98 (and all my programs and data) into the new computer and have it dual boot betwen the 2 operating systems Win98 just because they now reside on a different drive? 3. Would XP "see" my old hard drive at all? Would my new hard drive have its own C-drive, D-drive,

Dual boot on different drive
Do most laptops have the same size slot and connector design, so that a hard drive from one kind of laptop would just plug into another kind of laptop? Both of these toys are running GNU/Linux and one is dual boot. Mandriva on the big box and Knoppix on the laptop. Whether or not the RH can recognise enough of

Hard drive crash!
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP (Please respond only in the newsgroup) tknitez <tkni...@hotmail.com> wrote: I currently have WIN ME on one hard drive and would like to put XP professional on a second hard drive and dual boot. The problem is that my motherboard uses a UDMA controller so I have to run both

Dual-Boot - 2 hard drives - more questions
002- What kinds of hard drive systems are available? 003- What do SCSI ID numbers mean? 004- What is "SCSI-2" and how is it different from SCSI-1? look for a SCSI drive in an external enclosure with the following features: - 30 day money-back guarantee - external SCSI ID switching - dual 50 pin SCSI connectors

{newbie} Setting up a dual boot?
3) If its grub, can 'lilo -u' restore or are the formats different? 4) Again, if its grub, it just modified my virgin MBR, right? I have an old 50MHz laptop that came with a 341MB Hard drive and put a 3GB drive in it and have it dual boot win95 and Slackware 7.1 with X. Yes, lilo is in /sbin/lilo and is short

Installing to a swapable hard drive
I have taken the hard drive from my old machine and put it in my new one. What I am aiming for is to be able to dual boot into either OS. XP is on the C drive, 98 on the D drive. I'm not bothered about it being a slick operation, I want to use XP 99% of the time with 98 only for one specific purpose.

Dual boot ME and XP with 4 hard drives (questions)
Dual boot: I use partition magic and boot magic so I can't tell you the 'hard 'n' dirty way' to do it. No problem. I have Partition Magic 7. I also use Drive Image 2002 for my personal machines. They've alll 3 been perfect for me, but maybe not for a Dell. Why Drive Image if you have Ghost?

dual boot Windows 98 and Windows NT on two different drives
Howard Brazee how...@brazee.net microsoft public win2000 new_user I dual boot from different hard drives. On my two drives, only C: is primary, the other partitions are in two extended partitions. E: is my W98, and K: and L: are my W2K boot partitions on my second drive. I don't have any idea what's wrong with his

corrupted system files in dual boot system
Since January, I run only Win2K; until then I dual-booted with Win98, and used only FAT32 for compatibility. I recently added my first IDE hard drive, I can boot into either OP sys no problems. However I have a situation where the drive letters are different in each OP sys. Here's the prob: If I boot into Win

Quicken 2008 Deluxe Vista 64 bit - Couple of questions
Sharon F sharonf...@ETEmvps.org microsoft public windowsxp customize On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:43:08 -0700, Don Lockwood wrote: Hey guys, I have two hard drives. The master runs XP and the slave runs 98. I reciently changed the master disk OS from 2000pro to XP. After installing XP, my boot.ini was changed back to

Dual Boot on seperate hard drives
Gary White garywhite1...@worldnet.att.net comp os ms-windows setup win95 comp os ms-windows win95 misc JB Wood wrote: Does anyone have any experience configuring a dual boot system on a single platform such that Win 3.1 and its applications are on one hard drive and Win 95 and its applications are on separate hard

HELP! File corruption with Win2k / Win98 dual boot config.
If it is an IDE drive, set it as Master. Attach the external hard drive and boot with the TI bootable CD. Restore the image to this drive. 5. Boot into XP. 6. You now have both hard drives in the system. Boot with the Vista DVD and install it. Vista will see XP and put an entry in its boot manager.

Transfer EZ-BIOS From Dying Hard Drive to A Different Hard Drive?
Triple boot setup: Windows ME/Windows 2000 Pro (SP4)/Windows XP Pro (SP2) w/ IE7 Computer 2 - 2.6 GHz Celeron - Onboard Audio (tops out at 48MHz Stereo) - 512 MB Sony Vaio Pentium 4 Dual Core 3 Ghz 2 Gigs DDR2 533Mhz Ram GeForce 8600 256meg 633hz 320gb hard drive Windows XP I have it hooked up to a 23 inch Sony

Thinking of jumping from Win98SE to Win2k
Whether the systems are on partitions on the same drive or on different drives is immaterial. "Lance Le Claire" <l...@videotron.ca> wrote in message I just installed 64 bit Vista Ultimate, retail full version, in what I thought was a dual boot environment. I added a new sata hard drive, and installed Vista on

PC Specs - show of hands
It's hard to say - it should work, but I'd certainly check first. 3. With a dual boot setup where, say, each OS is installed on a separate hard drive, is it possible I could see some advantages to that, especially if I need to switch back and forth a lot between applications running under the different OS's.