Dual Booting From Two Hard Drives? 1

[VacuumTubeEra]

I'm teaching myself how to dual boot Windows 98SE & Windows 2000 on a "test bed" computer assembled from spare parts. I have two hard drives (IBM & Western Digital). Can Windows 98SE be in a partion on one of the hard drives and Windows 2000 be in a partion on the second hard drive? Or do the two operating systems have to be in separate partions on the same hard drive? I have read that it is possible for both operating systems to share the same partion, but that's not my objective. This is a learning experience right now.

 

[smah]

Yes, they can be on seperate drives. You find documentation for 2 partitions of the same drive just because it's more common/convenient/cost effective. But my preferred method of multi-booting different operating systems is multiple drives if possible.

 

[VacuumTubeEra]

smah - Thank you for the information, that configuration will be next on my "learning" agenda.

 

[pweegar]

Actually, it's really easy to install two OS's on two different drives. Just make sure that you install Win2K LAST.

 

[YellowOnline]

As an addition to pweegar's comment (in case you'd install more Windows'): always install from the oldest version till the newest.

Peace,

Yellow

 

[wolluf]

And you might want to consider a third party boot manager and independent o/s installations (if you actually do it for real) - rather than using Windows boot loader (which makes all the versions of windows share the same boot sector - on the C: partition - even if there are multiple drives. Which means if this boot sector or 1st partition gets scrambled, nothing will boot (not too bad with 2 o/s - but a pain if you have a few more - and there are safeguards).

http://www.boot-us.com

is my choice of boot manager (free for personal use).