dual boot with 2 hard drives

[mitzmom]

I have a 10 GB hard drive with Window 98 installed and a 40 GB hard drive with XP Pro installed. I need to know how to boot into Windows 98 when I need to. What do I do?

[J-Excel]

Welcome to TechIMO!

Not to be rude but have you tried searching this forum?

[mitzmom]

Yes I have, but I could not find a specific answer to the two hard drives with operating systems ALREADY installed. If I have missed something, it would be helpful for you to point me in the right direction.

[J-Excel]

The easiest way is to edit boot.ini on the drive with XP Pro. It is a hidded/system/read-only file so you'll have to change the attributes first. Then just add an entry for the 98 drive. It should be somewhat straight forward but I think I can find a Microsoft tutorial that goes step-by-step.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Can this be done by editting the XP ini file to allow the option to boot to 98 on the slave drive or XP on the master?

Just wondering.

Bill

[Bill in SD, CA]

That answered my question now didn't it.

Bill

[J-Excel]

This might help... http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;289022

If 98's boot files are not located on the 'Active' partition, it's not going to work. You'll either need some 3rd Party software, or a "Do Over". Install 98, then XP, XP will recognize the 98's there and handle things accordingly.