Operating systems

[nilanjan]

I have windows 98 and 2000 on 2 psysically different hard drives. It doesn't give me an option to select the OS during boot up. Only way now i can boot up with different OS to change the booting sequence for HD in the BIOS settings. can anyone tell me how to set it up to get the choice during boot up.. not changeing the bios setting all the time? the motherboard i have is Impression 771 AS (for slot A Athlons)

 

[GuardianAli]

its simple..

i did it easy.

One have two drives or partitions...(preferably two drives).

Then install win98 FIRST!

Once done install win2000 SECOND!
It will ask to install as update, clean(second OS), choose the clean second OS option and make sure to keep FAT32. NTFS is nice but u cant swap files between the two.

Since u installed win2000 second, it will ask which to use when u start.

 

[nilanjan]

I already have both the operating system. however it doesn't give me the option to choose during booting. Will it help if I reload win 98 second (later)? I have more programs running for win 200 and don't want to reload that. however I don't mind reloading win 98.

 

[BCYL]

No, reloading win98 would not help... pop in your win2k CD and do a repair installation... it will restore your MBR and let you dual-boot again...

 

[KGB]

Yes, BCYL is correct.

Load your Win2K disk and do a repair installation.

 

[nilanjan]

Thank you for your help. i will do that.

 

[The_Duck]

B4 you try reinstalling things and repair installs. Try setting the W2k disk to boot, go in and edit your boot.ini file and at the end add the line
X:\ = "Microsoft Windows"
Where X is the drive letter of the drive containing the Win.com for Windows 98.
If my syntax is off here and this doesn't work go to WWW.microsoft.com/technet and search Multi-boot or Boot.ini and you should find an article or two to help you out with the syntax. Technet
Good luck