Dual Boot Win XP and Win 98 separate HDDs 1

[anh22]

Hi all,

My computer has:

- Win XP on the 1st HDD (master). This has 3 partitions C:, D:, E:, all are NTFS.

- Win 98 on the 2nd HDD (slave). It has 4 partitions H:, I:, J:, K:, all in FAT32. (F:, and G: are CD drives.)

Both HDDs have a lot of data, and I cannot reformat any of them. At present I can boot only Win XP. It can read and write to the 2nd HDD.

I want that I can boot from both OS, XP and 98, because I need to run many programs in my Win 98 HDD. It seems that there is a simple way, just to add a line in the boot.ini of XP. Can anybody help me? Please also send the reply to my address anh22hai@yahoo.fr.

Thanks a lot,

anh22

 

[wolluf]

Get third party boot manager from

http://www.boot-us.com

(free for personal use) - install in XP, and use its GUI to set up boot menu (which you can store in mbr, on a floppy, or a spare partition).

Alternatively - when you want to boot 98, change boot sequence in the bios (to boot from second hard drive or D first). Change back for XP. Not elegant - but it works.

 

[anh22]

Hi wolluf,

Just to say thank you. I have not yet tried boot-us, but I succeeded booting win 98 from the 2nd HDD by simply changing BIOS. Your hint saves me a lot of work. I may prefer this to using the boot loader for example boot-us.

Thanks again,

anh22

 

[jwynn]

Why ? XP can use fat32