Different XP installs on different drives

[rshankar]

Somehow I need to be able to do this.

Windows Professional XP OS on disks A and C. I should be able to choose at startup whether I want the OS to boot from A or C.

Now, if the OS from disk A is used for booting, then after Windows starts it should not be able to access C at all (which means C should not visible to the OS in any way) although A and B are visible.



Now, if the OS from disk C is used for booting, then after Windows starts it should not be able to access A and B at all (which means A and B should not visible to the OS in any way) although C is visible.

Any help wil be appreciated
Thanks,
Shankar

 

[pip22]

Your use of drive letters is confusing - A and B cannot be used for hard disks, they are reserved for use by floppy-disk drives????????????

Give us the correct drive letters and we may be able to help you!

 

[rshankar]

Sorry for the confusion...i meant as an example....Use C, D and E for A, B anc C.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: rshankar
Sorry for the confusion...i meant as an example....Use C, D and E for A, B anc C.

There's hardware to do exactly that - little buttons you press to only enable a given disk drive.

 

[artemedes]

Research XOSL.

Does exactly what you want, will hide partitions not in use, and make the OS your booting to drive C.

Even when dual bootign two windows OS it is better than relying on MS dual boot loader.

At one time I had win98, XP pro, and linux. XOSL handled all the booting for me and would hide the win98 partition from the XP pro partition. Both Windows partitions would see themselves ad drive C.

Works great!