Dual Boot W2K/W2K same drive, different partitions???

[ngagne]

I need to be able to dual boot 2 W2K OS's on a single drive. I partitioned the drive into 2 equal portions, then ghosted a clean copy of the OS onto each partition.

When I boot the system, only the first partition boots, there is no boot select menu as I would expect to see. The "Display a list of operating systems" box is checked, but still no boot menu.

Any ideas? Did the Ghost process cause the boot sector not to be populated with the two installations?

 

[ngagne]

Nevermind...I figured out that I had to edit the boot.ini
[duh]

Thanks anyways...

 

[sunspore]

Hey ngagne,

When you ghosted the second copy of W2k onto the drive, you didn't put the boot files (properly known as system files) onto the c: drive, where they have to be in order to be recognized as a boot option. You shouldn't ghost the second copy. Try installing it fresh and choosing the second partition when it asks you where you want that OS to go. It will automatically put the system files on the c: drive (the boot partition). However, since you are installing two identical OS's, you may still have a problem. I've never tried to do this. W2k might not let you do this. Why do you want two of the same OS on a drive?

Sunspore