Setting up dual boot!

[NOS]

I have two hard drives. One is loaded with win me and the other has been wiped.
I want to install windows 2000 on the second drive and make a dual boot. The reason I want to set it up on the second drive is so I can take the windows 2000 drive off of the system at a later time.
Is this possible to do?
If so, do i partition the new drive and boot into win me and install from there or will windows 2000 partition it?
thanks!

 

[SUOrangeman]

For the easiest dual boot setup, connect both drives and install Win9x/ME first. Then, follow up with the Win2K install (you should be able to boot with the Win2K CD and all will be well).

I WILL NOT guarantee that and individual hard drive will boot if you move it to another system.

-SUO

 

[danielshoes]

I belive if you install FIRST WinMe on the first hd, and, while running WinMe you insert Win2k installation cd and follow the instructions (installing a new OS, not upgrading it), you can select the second hd for Win2k installation and a dual boot menu will be prompted ever you turn on your computer, where you can choose between both.

But, if you remove the 2nd drive, I belive it will not boot when connected alone into a new machine. The dual boot menu is located into the FAT32 partition. I've tried a similar configuration and it didn't work.
0) FIRST OF ALL: Prepare a boot disk with FORMAT and FDISK.
Suggestion (follow the steps below):
1) Connect only the first hd and install the WinMe.
2) Connect only the second hd and install the Win2k.
Well, until now you have two hd with two systems and no dual boot.
3) Connect the WinMe drive in the PRIMARY IDE connector and the other drive where you want.
4) Download the free boot manager called Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL) at www.xosl.org . It comes with a very good html manual.
5) Save it into a floppy and install it in the WinMe drive. With this boot loader you can boot the WinMe (FAT32) partition and the Win2k (NTFS) partition. (you can install it

Note that you second drive - with Win2k - will not be changed anytime. This certifies that it will boot normally when installed into another machine.

When you want to restore the first drive - with WinMe - to the normal configuration, you can do it by a boot manager feature or simply type:
FDISK/MBR

Contact me if you try it and the results.

 

[RSM]

I was able to do 2 operating systems with one removeable if you don't mind a little bios hassle and you have a board with a seperate UDMA 66 channel.I did win me on the primary 33 ide and 2000
on the udma 66 controller.When i need to go to 2000 i just switch the boot sequence in the bios and it grabs the other drive.I did this to experiment with 200 while building a clone system for mobile recording(im a musician)