dual boot??????

[Docter Dave]

I got two hard drives. I want to put win98 on C drive and Win2000 on drive.
The question i got??? how do you switch from the two os systems.

[wedor]

If you install Win98 first and then 2K you will get an option screen allowing you to pick your OS while booting.

[Omletteboy]

As wedor said, install win98 on C: then install win2k on D:, win2k will do all the work and setup the boot option.

[Hpro]

This all only if Win2k is also installed on a FAT32 partition or a formatted FAT32 Drive - and not NTFS.!

If you have any ASUS board P3B -f to CUBX then when booting the computer and seeing the hard drive initialization press CTRL+ESC for a second or two this will then bring up a Boot menu where you can choose the drive you like to boot from..

Otherwise you need to make a Dos Partition On your C:\drive fat 16 (Fdisk & Format ) is more thatn enough - about 100Mb is more than enough too and then making a extended partition for Win98 on the C:\ drive which will become D:\using FAT32 - after this install Win98 onto D:\ this will copy the bootfiles to the C:\ dos partition or call it boot partition..

After this insert the CDROM for Win2k boot from the CDrom and then select the SECOND hard drive to install Win2k - this then automatically will place all the boot files on the Boot partition C:\and the rest on the secondary hard drive which will become automatically D:\ pushing your Win98 partition back by one drive to E:\ if you have a CDrom then it will push Win98 furhter back to F:\ because all physical drives come before Logigal drives.. But anyway Win98 will run as ever and you will be able to install Win2k on NTFS which it is supposed to use .. adding another drives will push back the Win98 Partition - so if this happen then Win98 will not boot unless you correct the Boot.ini and also edit MSDOS.SYS that it actually matches the partition again..