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Win98 or Win XP boot

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daremi

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Suppose I have two seperate hard drives, one with Windows 98 Op Sy and the other WinXP, and I connect them both to the IDE cable from which op system will it boot? I had win 98 and now I bought another HD and installed XP but I want to use both seperately as I dont want to format the windows 98 HD? How do I boot either from the Win98 drive or the XP drive. 😕
 
Or - install a mobile rack - get two inner trays - put 98 in one and XP in the otjher, and then boot with which ever you like in a dedicated single boot fashion. Much neater and more reliable than software boot choosers.
 
Originally posted by: daremi
Suppose I have two seperate hard drives, one with Windows 98 Op Sy and the other WinXP, and I connect them both to the IDE cable from which op system will it boot? I had win 98 and now I bought another HD and installed XP but I want to use both seperately as I dont want to format the windows 98 HD? How do I boot either from the Win98 drive or the XP drive. 😕
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Well, when I put both on the same HDD, I get a screen asking me which I wanna boot from. If I don't choose within 20 secs it defaults to the first in the list.

I'm thinking since you've got each on a diff drive, which one it boots from depends on your BIOS selection for boot order. If you wanna boot from XP, put it's drive first in the boot priority.

Fern
 
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