Need help/second drive in dual boot

[Dilsnik]

I have a dual boot system. Both partitions are on the same physical disk,
on separate partitions created thanks to partition magic.

98se is on c, 2000 on d. The way it's setup now, 2k's boot loader offers the choice
to boot into 2k or 98se. 2k sees itself of course, and the 98 (c) partition. 98 only sees itself,
as the d partition is ntfs. Anyone have any special info on installing a second hard drive in such a setup
without breaking the dual boot?

I want the new drive to be for data storage and applications.
I 'd like it to be set up as slave on the primary channel.

I've heard that if you add a second drive in such a system, it can break the os'es by changing the drive letters, so that the boot loader can't find the drives/partitions.
Is this true, and if so is there a way around it?
Thanks in advance,
Dils

 

[Dilsnik]

Does anyone have any ideas that might help?

 

[BenRosey]

I think that as the slave it would work, but I'm not sure. I've only dealt with partitioning once before.

If I were you I would just try it and see. If it doesn't work pull it back out.

 

[SilverTorch]

i think it could work. since win2k loader is doing the prompt it will recognise both partitions and then the slave HD.
i heavent played much with win 98se, but in win2k you can assign drive letters without a problem to any device regardless of its position physically on the IDE bus.

 

[Dilsnik]

I would do that , but I've heard that the os'es can be irreparably broken.
So I need to know first.

 

[BenRosey]

Where did you hear this info about the possible problems?

 

[Dilsnik]

I did a search on google and it gave a bunch of links to posts in forums where people talked about second drive breaking bootloader in 2k.