Two OS's with two Hard Disks?

[Guest_imported]

Is it possible to boot with choice of selecting two different Operating Systems? I have drives C: & D:
Currently, Win98 is on C:, and nothing on D:
Is this possible with Windows 2000?

I mean, I could also just put an OS on D: by making it my Primary Drive instead of a slave.
I know how to put an OS on both drives, that's not a problem. But how would I be able to choose from which to boot from?

 

[Vansplatter]

Yes it is possible. Put your W2K on drive "d" and that will be that.

 

[ff1048]

Put the W2K CD in the drive and boot the
machine. You'll be prompted to "strike any key" if you wish to boot from the CD,
do so. The installation utility will begin and will ask you where you would like
to install W2K. The default drive will read C:, but change this to D:. The
utility will ask if you want to reformat the drive in NTFS, answer NO! W2K will
run and function just fine on a FAT32 partition.


During the scan of the system the installation utility will detect the previous
W98 install and ask if you want to overwrite it or dual boot between the
systems, select dual boot. W2K will then install the boot manager to the root of
the C: partition and from then on you'll be prompted on bootup for your choice
of OS. By default, the system will boot into W2K if there is no input from you
but this may be changed later, along with the time allowed for input before the
bootup default is started.

 

[ngagne]

You can also buy a hardware controller that switches your IDE cable connections at the push of a button. More expensive but easier to troubleshoot than a dual-boot OS. Nate Gagne
nathan.gagne@verizon.net
AKA Nick Burns - Your Company's Computer Guy
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[Networker1]

You can also change Primary Boot IDE's on the BIOS. Change from IDE-0 to IDE-1 and viceversa.

Still, I would go with ff1048's answer. It's the logical, non-trouble, and easiest way to do it.

Networker1
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[tempo21]

yep i agree with networker1 - you should get an option at startup to choose your OS for that session.
Two OS is also possible on a single drive under the new software HyperOS2002. In fact you can run up to 10 OS (provided they are windows versions...)

read more here...

http://www.hyperos2002.com/