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dual booting win 98 and windows 2000 on different drives using ...
If you don't want to buy a boot manager, then you'll have to re-install your system with winME on the first hard disk, then 2000 on the second. DOT "Newhomes support" <supp...@newhomes.com> wrote in message news:ssfmmuchj1us2a@corp.supernews.com... Ok here we go I need to dual boot between to different hard drives

dual boot Windows 98 and Windows NT on two different drives
How can I fix that so I can use LILO to dual-boot both operating system? Or if I need to reinstall, what settings do I need to change to make it right? If LILO couldn't pull a job like this, then which boot-manager can? BootMagic?? That is what exactly I am planning to do, just waiting for my second hard drive,

dual boot Windows 98 and Windows NT on two different drives
Best regards Bjorn -- Bjorn Landemoo - bj...@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/ Microsoft MVP - Windows NT help <ffi...@netscape.net> wrote: Hi Currently I have : SCSI 1 -- Win 98 C: Win 2000 d: empty F: 9 giga SCSI 6 -- Win NT 4 sp 5 4 giga How can I make a dual boot for both hard drive ? As my second hard drive

dual boot from different drives
But i think dual boot is different from using software such as betwin because u cant use both os's at the same time! "steve" <st...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1E25C7E1-3E73-4CCA-91FD-90EB9E3AEA59@microsoft.com... Hello I would like to do a dual boot operating system but with 2 hard drives.

Dual boot on different drive
Why not consider this: buy yourself a TRAYLESS SATA mobile carriage and insert hard drives like floppies. I've been sold on the "mobile carriage" concept for a Does anyone know if it is possible to dual boot using the pre installed windows Vista and install vista on a new partition and how to go about it?

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Like most bilingual users, I run a dual boot system. Right now I am dual booting Win98SE English and Win98SE Japanese. I use removable hard disks, Hard disk 1 contains the OS and is removable, so all I have to do to switch OSs is swap hard drives. Hard disk 1 is always C:> drive, no matter which disk I boot

Win2k and RedHat 7.2 on different hard-drive dual-boot with LILO??
If you want to dual boot Win98 and WinNT without using a third party boot manager the boot partition must be FAT16. You can use a small FAT16 boot partition for boot files and install Win98 on a FAT32 partition and WinNT on a NTFS partition. hhu...@justintime.com wrote: I have just bought a new 8 gig hard drive to

Dual boot operating system
Ed Mc wrote: I have 2 hard drives in the same computer. Each has it's own copy of XP installed. It's a dual boot system. I would like to erase one drive and Google gives answers for dual boot with different OS's. Thanks for any help. JS wrote: I also should mention to check you applications load OK while your

how to formatted disk on Mac OS 9.2
I am actually working on upgrading my computer and will have a dual-boot of 98SE and XP Pro on two hard drives. 98SE will be on my 40 gigabyte hard drive while XP Professional will be on my Should I have ME and XP on different partitions of the __same__ hard drive, or should I put them on different hard drives?

Dual boot with WinXP
What I would like to know is how different is Win2k from Win98SE. First from a purely user standpoint. Does it pretty much look and act the same? Or add a 2nd HD, install Win2k there and dual boot. Or forget the dual boot and just keep the old hard drive as your 'data backup' of the old system.

Dual booting NT and 95 to different drives
Sven Tamp t...@ut.ee comp windows misc I have a system with 2 physical hard drives with different os-s on each (XP and W98). PS Although I`ve got Partition Magic, I think it is intended for dual boot from a single hard drive with different logical partitions on it, rather than from different physical drives.

Dual Boot/Dual Hard Drive Questions (98/NT4)
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.

XP Home on 2 Different Hard Drives
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE franksaund...@mvps.org microsoft public windows inetexplorer ie6 browser You can't install IE twice on the same operating system (Windows install) whether on a different hard drive or not. If it's a dual boot system that's a different matter, but if they're both WinXP SP2 they will both

different operating systems on 2 hard drives
Mine is 100 megs (on a system with Win98, WinNT, and Linux across two hard drives on it) and is way more than enough, by about 90 megs. If you can, it is best to backup all Then you should have no problem with the dual-boot. Drive C: is also nice for when you want to transfer or share file between NT and Win95.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I have Win XP Pro installed on one Hard drive and Win 2000 installed on another hard drive in the same computer. They are two physically different hard drives, not partitions of one big one. I would like to set up dual boot to allow me to boot into XP or 2000 depending on what I am doing.

Vista now needs CD to boot after installing XP on slave--suggestio
Absolutely, it's referred to as dual booting. Install the hard drive, partition and format if you like to make things easy. Boot Win98 and insert the XP CD. ntldr will create the necessary dual boot file (boot.ini). Learn something new every day. I didn't know you could dual boot using 2 different drives. Neat.

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
Well worth the download and test drive; see if you can resist making your system a dual boot with this very zippy and configurable effort from TexStar and company and all the fine developers at In addition to the Live CD, you can also install PCLinuxOS to your hard drive with an easy-to-use Live CD Installer.

dual usb ibook won't see new hard drive
AJR ajr...@comcast.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support hitesh ughreja - proper way to create a dual boot system is to install the "older" OS (XP) is not allowing me. i am able to boot the laptop through CD rom but when it starts installing the windows xp from CD rom it is not finding any hard drive.

XP and 2 hard drives
Normally, the older OS must be installed first unless you wish to acquire and use some 3rd-party partition and boot management utility. I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to try this for his/her first attempt at dual-booting. Once the hard drive bearing WinXP has been "transplanted," you'll need to perform a

XP dual boot 98 on a different drive
So Xp line reads 1st partition on the 1st hard drive. The point I'm making is the syntax is different for 9x and nt OSs. So you should end up with [Boot Loader] Timeout=5 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP