2 hdrives, each with own os, xp and 2000, can i daul boot?

[azdevil]

I have two hard drives for my computer, one has winxp and the other has win2k.
Is there a way I can configure my ide channels to dual boot?
Thx

 

[Bassist695]

I have basically the same setup on my system, except instead of 2000, I have ME. I think as long as you have one as a master, and one as slave, you're fine. I didn't have to toy around with anything in order to get a dual boot menu on my system on startup.

Hope this helps.



<< I have two hard drives for my computer, one has winxp and the other has win2k.
Is there a way I can configure my ide channels to dual boot?
Thx >>

 

[azdevil]

Do you have them on the same ide channel?

 

[azdevil]

I have both HDD set to master one on each channel. I've tried the same channel, only xp booted up, it was the master. Is xp your master.

 

[EagleKeeper]

I have worked with NT/2000/98 on different drives/same channel.

As long as the installation knew which OS the drive was located on and I did not change the HW configuration of the drives (swap Master-0 with Slave-0 or Master-1) I had no problem.

 

[rudder]

Just edit the boot.ini file.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows XP" /fastdetect


THats the way I have mine setup. one drive is master, the other is slave. Master is rdisk 0, slave is rdisk 1.