How can I tweak with MBR and have two OS's booting off two diff HD's?f

[NurseRN]

My earlier post explained it... I am trying to have Win2k on one drive and Win98 on another and have have the option to choose either one. I was told that installing Win2k over Win98, there is an option but I have already clean intalled Win2k and already configured it. Any 3rd party software or any chance of tweaking MBR?

Thanks,

Nurse

 

[compuwiz1]

Your boot manager has to reside on the drive your first operating system resides on. If you intalled from Win98, which is your C drive, even if you install Win2k and run setup from Win98, chosing to install Win2k, on the D drive, the boot manager of Win2k remains on your primary active drive. That should be enough for most people.
There is a program called System Commander that will allow some flexibility there. http://www.v-com.com/

 

[SUOrangeman]

What's your drive layout (primary/secondary & master/slave)? I'm really trying to find out where C: is.

If C: is NOT NTFS, you may be able to just install Win98 with 'setup /ntldr' and it will add itself to Win2K's boot loader. Right now, you probably don't even see Win2K boot loader because there is only one option to boot.

Search the archives for 'dissertation' and get a feel for what you are up against. Also, visit the OS forum. This question has been asked and answered a few times.

-SUO

 

[subman]

Nurse..

I had until yesterday Win98SE on my Primary master and Win2k Prof on my Primary Slave drive and when I wanted to change to the other OS I went into the BIOS and changed from "Boot from C" to "Boot from D" .... yesterday I got WinME Final and have replaced Win2k on the D drive with this new OS. I have no problems with sharing the same swap file between Win98 and WinME.

I have both drives marked as Active drives therefor I can boot off the D drive.