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Please for my piece of mind and sanity answer!!
I would like to put the old drive back in as a slave, and at startup have a choice as to which drive to boot from. Is this possible and if so, how? After searching all morning, I can't seem to find anything on this site that leads me in the right direction. Lot's of info on 2 different operating systems dual

two hd and two o/s
The system booted up from XP English and detected the 2nd HD the very first time, and I did see two XP O/S at next system bootup. To All, I have win xp english loaded on disk1 and another language of xp pro loaded on disk2. both are ntfs formatted. how do I create a dual-boot loader file on disk1 so that i can

Dual-boot with two installs of XP (Dell Inspiron 6000 with ...
For further study of the setup, you could probably compare two machines, such as yours and another with pristine installations of your choices of o/s. I have a dual boot arrangement with Win 98 SE and Win 2000. Win 98 is installed to drive C:. Win 2000 is on drive P:. Windows 98 has died, and will only boot in

xp
Jon j...@bogus.net alt os windows-xp I have a dual boot setup--WinME set up on one drive and WinXP on the other. I have installed the latest MSOE 6 on both drives. When I change from one O/S to the other--and open MSOE in this O/S--I can easily see all the Inbox, etc. mail folders and read all the messages d/l'd

XP Thinks theres two O/S and dual boots
"S> "S> A friend of mine, who is a computer expert (but NOT a Linux expert) has "S> tried for the past two hours to install Linux following the strict "S> instructions Is this going to be a dual boot system? If it is *not* a dual boot system, you should use Linux's fdisk -- select 'Custom' install -- to create

Dual Boot with two boot.ini's
You need a third-party boot manager. I recommend XOSL. It is free. "Gilbert Kofie" <gkof...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:O7Yrv8NcDHA.3748@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... I have Win 2000 and Win XP on two separate hard drives, and yet when the system boots, I don't get the option of selecting an O/S. However,

URGENT! Linux will NOT install!
If you can still fire up Windows 95, then (from Micros**t Setup Technical Discussion):- "To set up dual-boot capabilities after Windows 95 has been installed. You will usually have to remove the H(idden), S(ystem), R(ead-only) attributes to copy them. The bit you won't like :-( :- "Caution You must rename the

The Linux Speech (part 2)
I *CAN* attack it that way, which, incidentally I have done, at times, in dual boot OS/2 - DOS boxes, to clean up cross linked EA files with garbage that in SCANDISK with an alias handle, then they can't close the alias handle somehow on exit, leaving a pointer in the FAT to TWO places for the file(s)!

Two SCSI questions
How do I get W2k to display the menu of O/S's so that I can select the O/S startup on my dual boot system? I have two W2k O/S's installed on different partitions - but when I startup, the "selection menu" does not come on (I don't get any 'choice') and it boots directly to the default active partition.

Advice Needed on NT/98 Dual HDD, Dual Boot Setup
All the pc's share (no password, read and write) at least one folder on their "own" hard disk(s) and a few are additional (password, only read etc. In any case, as I have the hard disk space on second pkysically separate drive, it seemed like a good time to do the dual-boot thingie I'm now about to attempt my

Two O/Ss-one MSOE message store. One O/S trashes the others' files
Its a DUEL boot. That means that there is going to be a lot of fighting. What you need is a DUAL boot. Here is how to solve your problem. prompt type in A:\> format c: /s this formats the c drive and puts an active system file and two hidden files so the drive can start a bootup process if you run windows 95/98

Fuel Pricing?
while I resize those two. Fourth, in one message, you said: 1. By reformating the primary partition on hd0, will I have to re-install Wdk as primary intention is to wipe out the multiple MBR(s). I'm sure I won't be able to directly boot into it, but I do have a boot disk that should allow me to get to get to the

Networking two pc`s? please.
I haven't yet set up a dual boot machine with XP so I can't give you specifics, but I have done it with several other OS's. For someone to help you, though, you'll need to provide "D" and "E" are my two CD-ROM drives. Sorry if that confused people. I'm going to phone PowerQuest today to see if they can help me.

NT/98 dual boot & c: clean as possible
I've read the dual boot installation instructions, and I don't see a way to do this. [ LONG APPEND ] Dual boot implies that both both operating systems When you install OS/2, you have the option of running fdisk to set up your disk(s) partitions. On the first disk add the boot manager partition (1MB) as the

How to kill duplicate EA file?
Problem is that most video splitter is used for one card to two or more monitors -not exactly your situation... Maybe something here: http://www.networktechinc.com/welcome.html _Switch multiple computers to 1 monitor_ /Bo Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Mark S. Inman Raleigh, NC -----------== Posted via

two hd and two o/s
... am able to boot up to anyone of these o/s by changing the boot sequence.when i am in win98 and go to my computer it shows it as c drive. the other drive is d, to original setup. can i set up a dual boot or not. should i stay they way i am, and just change boot sequence when i want to use either or o/s. thanks.

dual booting on two hard drives
4) New Hard Drive Formatted with two partitions. XP installed on partition one and running fine. 5) Tried to set-up dual boot using Advanced tab on System Properties Control Panel. Under Startup and Recovery clicked "Setting" and edited the startup options file as follows: [boot loader] timeout=30

two hd and two o/s
Because if you decide to get rid of Vista Xp will not boot anymore if Vista was using botmngr for both drives. Having 2 different O/S boot on two different Colin, He's not in a dual boot situation so each drive is individual. You would have to do this if Vista was the boot manager. Don, Choose which ever OS you

Win98 - XP dual boot
One article says to install the latest O/S last, the other says it doesn't matter. I've never dual booted before so can someone point me to the definitive resource or answer a couple of questions. I have two separate 30Gb drives, C: & D: and will be clean installing Win98 and XP using FAT32.

Using boot.ini to boot secondary slave
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values are: 0 1 00 268 0 1 0F 1652 254 63 4305420 22250025 4305420 0 00 268 1 1 0B 890 254 63 4305483 .... I use the win2k boot loader to dual boot. Right there, when I can choice between the two systems after booting, I get the drive specification error,