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Win9x requires its boot sector and system files (io.sys and msdos.sys) to be on the first partition of the first hard drive, and that partition must be primary and active Can I use FDISK and make the FAT32 partition primary, then install Win98 to the FAT32 partition, and still be able to dual boot to Win2000?

Dual booting - FSX on two OS's?
Philo, why can't the poster back Vista up to an external hard drive using Acronis; delete ALL partitions, formatt, restore from backup, run startup repair, and it is done! I installed Vista in partition H: so I could dual-boot to XP Pro on C:. Now I'm ready to dump XP and I'd like to move Vista to C:.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
No, I have ONE drive with three partitions, C, D, E. I had a dual boot XP (on C) and Vista (on E) . First was XP, Vista installation through XP. I assume for this that they are on the same hard drive. If not please post back the information from Disk Manangement so we can get an idea of your setup "Mac

Dual Boot?
Howard Kaikow kai...@standards.com microsoft public win2000 setup I have the same issue with a dual boot Win 98/Win 2000, both hard drives and CD-ROM are 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

dual boot 10.1 install on WIndows machine
( http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1532 SE-431 47 MOLNDAL ( * ) http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-12271 SWEDEN "Jon Spradley" <jcspr...@mindnospamspring.com> wrote: I apologize for another Dual boot question but I haven't been able to find the exact answer I'm looking for. I have two hard drives in my computer,

Dual Boot: Can I reinstall WindowsXP onto a different hard ...
Kevin k...@ix.netcom.com microsoft public win98 gen_discussion I appreciate all the feed back I was refering to dual booting using different hard drives "and" using a shared programs configuration for all my OS's. Is this different from what your describing? I currently run a dual boot with win98 and win 2k on one

Need help with error messages at startup of RedHat Linux (with ...
I know you asked about dual boot. I'm not using dual boot system right now, but when I did dual boot to two Windows systems, I used a free utility called You can also put each booting OS onto separate physical drives, as long as your BIOS can handle different drives being the source of boot (not all BIOS's can)

Install problem of IE due to more recent version on different HD
Is there a utility that allows a copy of eg win98SE to be on each hard drive, but with each copy having different start up programs. You can do dual-boot electrically by making a switch that shorts the relevant programming pins on the hard drive. For example, any modern WD drive is a primary master if two

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Obviously, when booted into XP, the drive letters are different, XP then becomes C, and Vista becomes L. Thanks, -- Don "John Barnes" .... 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 it.

Dual boot - remove one OS.
I have aa dual boot with 2 physical hard drives. My C has Win98SE and my D has XP. Can I install XP on my D drive (this would give me XP on both drives) and have a dual boot so that I could chosse which installation of XP to run. Several different people use the same computer. I don't want to have two seperate

NT4/95 on different drives - dual boot ???
And I've only installed Windows once (and this was when selling an old computer where all I did was wipe the hard drive completely then reload the OS disk, computer while I'm doing this (and due to my health it still takes me forever to do the simplest things) is to do a dual-boot (something else new to me).

Trying to Dual boot Win2kPro and ME
Is it possible to dual boot XP and Vista just by changing the boot drive in System Setup? I've got 2 different hard drives and I'd like to dual boot XP and Vista. It seems to be a topic that's talked about much, but would a simple solution be to just put the two on different physical hard drives and then just

dual boot win-xp and win-me
I have tried the old hard drive, different optical drives, two different ribbon cables, hard drive only(no cd or dvd),optical drive only(no hard drive). All with the same results either a brightok.net> wrote: rpjepsen wrote: I installed a 40Gb Samsung in my G3 500 ibook but I can't get the "book' to boot up.

Error message on boot up
JB Wood w...@itd.nrl.navy.mil comp os ms-windows setup win95 comp os ms-windows win95 misc 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 drive?

Apple II Csa2 FAQs: Hard Disks & SCSI, Part 12/25
When I boot I would like to choose the OS that is loaded. Do I have to set the jumpers on the 2 hard drives in a specific way or can I just use cable select. Will I have to edit boot.ini ? You can use cable select or master/slave. This has nothing to do with the actual dual-booting.

dual boot
I've got 2 hard drives. The first hard drive has a dual boot setup on it with Win98SE on C drive(Primary) and Win Xp on D drive(Extended) and all works great. I want to move the Win98SE to the 2nd hard drive. Then keep Win XP on the first drive but slide it to the primary C partition and use BootMagic for the dual

MOVING A DUAL BOOT to 2 HARD DRIVES
How do I set up my box to dual boot between 2 hard drives? not different partitions but 2 separate drives? I booted from the Slackware cd and in cfdisk it only showed my windows drive. how do I get it to see my second drive I want to install Linux on the second Hard drive? I'm running Windows - ME on my primary.

Dual boot - remove one OS.
I have three sata hard drives. Drive 1 = XP OS ( 2 partitiions) Drive 2 - XP Data and Apps ( 2 partitions) Drive 3 = Vista ( 2 partitions) Currently, I have my hard disk boot order in bios, set for drive 1 first, which automatically boots into XP, which is fine as it is still going to be my main OS for a while.

Different operating systems on different partitions on the ...
none n...@nothere.net comp os linux setup On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 13:45:39 -0700, ^____^ wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Win2000 and RedHat Linux 7.2 on two different hard drives so in the future when I don't want one of them I can just simply format one hard drive. Both of my hard drives are IDE.

XP Home on 2 Different Hard Drives
I want to install Windows 98 in C: partition, and Windows XP in D: partition on the same hard drive. Is it possible to install different operating systems on different partitions on the same drive? If it is possible, how do I boot up from the choice of my operating system when I turn on the computer.