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DUAL Booting - DOS SelectionMenu - Begginner, plz help

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Mikelo2k

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Hi, i have a problem... actuqally a question.

Ok, i have 2 different HDs partitioned into a total of 6 drives. Now I have Windows XP on Drive C: and want to install Windows ME on Drive E:

Now, that is not really a problem. The main thing is, I want to have a DOS menu, at system boot-up, asking me which windows to start. I have seen this done before, and I really need to know how to do it. It is URGENT. U suspect I have to modify something in Autoexec.bat telling it to ask me. Please reply soon.

Overview:
1. Want to Install Win ME onto Another Harddrive
2. Need to know how to have a Menu ask me which system to start.
3. Need to know this ASAP

Thanx in advance,
Mikelo2k

P.S Anyone have sympatico High Speed running on WinXP?
 
If you are going to install the WinME on a seperate physical hdd and don't want to pay for a commercial boot mgr.:

You need to put WinME on the primary active partition of the second hdd (D:).

Once WinME is installed on D: you will need to boot to SETUP and within SETUP change the boot order to make drive D: the first boot drive.

I do this with Win9x on C: and Win2000 Server on a second hdd ie D:.
 
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