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    Dual Booting Win98 & WinXP on 2 Separate HDs

    Hey, I have Windows XP Pro on my primary 120GB HD, I wanted to install Windows 98SE on my Secondary 27GB HD.

    I know that I could simply just leave it at that, then manually change my bios to boot from whichever drive depending on the OS I wanted to load or just disconnect the drives and only use one drive at a time, though, both seem to be an annoyance.

    I was wondering how I would be able to have WinXP on my primary master HD and Win98 on my primary slave HD. Could I simply install Win98 on the second HD, then edit the boot.ini in XP so that I could get the dual boot working that way?

    This is currently what I have in my Boot.ini:

    [boot loader]
    timeout=0
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
    [operating systems]
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
    C:\ = "MS DOS Prompt"


    Would I have to change the C:\ to D:\ and add a line like

    multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98"



    And would I also have to copy boot.ini and ntldr to my secondary drive?

    I already have Windows XP installed on my primary HD, with a lot of apps and games installed, so I don't really want to go the way of installing 98, then installing xp.

    I've searched through the forums, but I haven't seen any threads that have directly addressed my predicament.

    Thanks!
    Last edited by Takeda; 08-24-2003 at 03:00 PM.
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