Dual-booting between ME and Win98?

[Erbium]

I have two harddrives, one with Win ME installed and the other with Win98 installed, anyone knows how I can dual boot between the two?

Erbium

 

[RaDragon]

Ghetto method:

If you want to boot with winME, set that hard drive to master, and the other to slave...
If you want to boot with win98, set that hard drive to master, and the other to slave...

🙂

 

[IamDavid]

Why bother????? WinME is the same as 98 except with a couple of stupid features and DOS disabled.. Just stick with 98se.

 

[danielshoes]

Yes, you can do it.

I use a boot manager called XOSL. It is very good and free.

You can, for example, connect the WinMe drive at the Primary Master IDE port (usually the first bootable device) and the Win98 drive where you want.
So, you save the XOSL into a boot floppy and install it on the WinMe drive. You can boot the WinMe and access the Win98 drive (if you want) but probably you will need to hide the WinMe drive when booting the Win98 drive (there is a hiding option in XOSL menu).

Good luck!

 

[AG73]

dude, if you're gonna dual boot, boot with win2k and win98/ME. Definitely don't need ME and 98. choose one or the other.
AG

 

[GhettoFob]

yeah, having 98 and ME is kinda redundant, most people say stick with 98se but personally I've never had any probs with winME

 

[danielshoes]

Yes, guys. You are right.
I agree with you when saying that this is redundant. But see my case, for example... My father bought a hd just to play flight simulators and I installed W98SE and didn't touch it anymore. I have, on the same system, my 30Gb drive with all the systems and stuff I want (including Me) and this is the reason I have to use a boot manager (choosing between Me and 98SE, among others...).

Maybe this is his case. If not, it is really redundant.