Dual Booting Problem

[AliasX]

Recently I got another hard drive, which I used to install Linux on. My computer contains two hard drives now, one running Windows XP, and one running OpenSuse. As soon as the computer boots up, it boots into Suse. Suse lets me choose to boot into a safe Suse mode, or into the default, regular Suse environment. My problem is that I should be able to choose between booting from my other hard drive to Windows, and booting from this one to Suse.

Does anyone know why I can't dual boot these? In my Bios I am instructed to press +/- to set the priority of the hard drives for booting, but no matter what I press I cannot change their position.

All help is appreciated.

 

[postmortemIA]

You could make new GRUB entry for Windows, but first we need to know what is first boot device, old or new hard drive.
I'm surprised that SUSE haven't done that already... Have you disconnected first drive while installing SUSE?

 

[Bozo Galora]

There are many ways to do this:
using the boot.ini file..........
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/16/1919205&tid=129&tid=49

or the GRUB loader (old link)
http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=405

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[AliasX]

I did not disconnect the old hard drive while installing Suse. Suse is on the new hard drive, and so it would make sense that the new hard drive is set to boot first, because Suse is all that will boot.

 

[AliasX]

In bios I realized I had to push the +/- keys on the numberpad for it to work. So after moving the 250gb hard drive to the top of the list, when I boot it just hangs, and doesn't go anywhere.

 

[AliasX]

I am at the point of aggrivation where I no longer care about linux, I just really want my Windows partition back.

Would it potentially prevent me from ever booting again if I put in my Dell Windows XP CD and repaired windows, and/or removed my linux partitions?

 

[postmortemIA]

repair with fixboot and fixmbr will fix the problem.