Dual Boot question

[crank33]

If you have two hard drives, one with Win 98SE installed on it and the other with Windows XP installed on it, how do you tell the computer which OS to boot to?

Thanks, Crank

[ZANEY123]

read through this thread it should help you out.

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24831

Zaney123

[crank33]

Hi Zaney. I read through the thread----it helped me out alright. I decided its too damn complicated for me so I decided not to do it. Thanks

[ZANEY123]

i think you can also buy a bootloader that will do it for you also.

[ZANEY123]

i have never tried it this way so make sure to read through all of it

http://www.osloader.com/

http://www.tucows.com/system/boot95.html

Zaney123

[GaryRouth]

Hi Crank, Hi Zaney, & all

The XP bootloader should be able to handle it: there is a bit simpler procedure over at AnandTech:
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=54

Seems like one of those hard drives is going to have come from a system with a different motherboard? - if it's the Win98 one, the ENUM trick in the Tips & Tricks section here at PC Mech can save time.

Best of luck & Happy Holidays
. . . Gary

[p.s. . . . one of the fellows I work with likes how he "dual boots": he bought a removable hard drive bracket (it's just a plastic box to put the drive in - it slides right out when you want to swap drives). He just pops in a hard drive with the O.S. he wants for that session. He keeps one O.S. per drive - last I heard, he was up to about five or six. It's like having 5 or 6 separate computers. He likes it because the true dual booting problems don't exist]

[Markoman01027]

Here are instructions if you want to add WIN 9X if you installed WIN2K or WINXP...

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24831

[crank33]

Thanks again to everyone. Lots of good information here.

Crank

[roy66]

Check here (http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_config.htm)
and here (http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/trios2/trios2.html)

roy66