Dual Booting with Separate Hard Drives & Separate OS

Posted: 07-11-2003, 09:41 PM

K. Jackey

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I have been using Windows 98SE on one hard drive. I
recently purchased a second hard drive and Windows XP
Home. Is there any way I can load Windows XP on the new
hard drive and have a menu appear which gives me a choice
under which operating system/hard drive I wish to boot
without having to reformat the HD with Windows 98. If
there are any free or low cost utilities that MUST be
purchased, please mention these too, although my budget is
limited. Any Help appreciated. Thanks

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Durand

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Re: Dual Booting with Separate Hard Drives & Separate OS

Posted: 07-12-2003, 01:13 PM

Don't forget to install XP to the second drive while you have it connected to
your secondary controller. It will give you a menu to choose which operating
system you want when you boot up after the install. I have 2 computers with the
setup you described and it works quite well.

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Durand

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>
> I have been using Windows 98SE on one hard drive. I
> recently purchased a second hard drive and Windows XP
> Home. Is there any way I can load Windows XP on the new
> hard drive and have a menu appear which gives me a choice
> under which operating system/hard drive I wish to boot
> without having to reformat the HD with Windows 98. If
> there are any free or low cost utilities that MUST be
> purchased, please mention these too, although my budget is
> limited. Any Help appreciated. Thanks

You need nothing. Connect the second HDD, boot windows 98
and insert the WinXP CD in the CDROM. On screen instructions
will run you through the rest.
Cheers

TJNII

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Dual Booting with Separate Hard Drives & Separate OS

Posted: 07-17-2003, 09:00 AM

Just install WinXP. It is programmed to handle your exact
situation. Just make sure you install the new HD as the
primary slave and leave the Win98 HD as the primary master.

>-----Original Message-----
>
>I have been using Windows 98SE on one hard drive. I
>recently purchased a second hard drive and Windows XP
>Home. Is there any way I can load Windows XP on the new
>hard drive and have a menu appear which gives me a choice
>under which operating system/hard drive I wish to boot
>without having to reformat the HD with Windows 98. If
>there are any free or low cost utilities that MUST be
>purchased, please mention these too, although my budget

>limited. Any Help appreciated. Thanks
>.
>

Isaac Amarel

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Re: Dual Booting with Separate Hard Drives & Separate OS

Posted: 07-17-2003, 10:38 AM

As TJNII wrote just install XP on the new HD, If you have partitions the
disk's name ( letters)may change. Choose the full install and NOT the
Upgrade (I am talking about the installation choices and not about the
Windows XPdisk you have to buy, Since you have Windows98SE you can buy the
original upgrade disk and save some money - it has the full install
choice-..The OEM full disk which may be cheaper has some limitations as to
computer hardware upgrades ). I have dual booting and it works perfectly.
If you need more details e-mail me.

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"TJNII" <tnoonan@iastate.edu> wrote in message
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> Just install WinXP. It is programmed to handle your exact
> situation. Just make sure you install the new HD as the
> primary slave and leave the Win98 HD as the primary master.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >I have been using Windows 98SE on one hard drive. I
> >recently purchased a second hard drive and Windows XP
> >Home. Is there any way I can load Windows XP on the new
> >hard drive and have a menu appear which gives me a choice
> >under which operating system/hard drive I wish to boot
> >without having to reformat the HD with Windows 98. If
> >there are any free or low cost utilities that MUST be
> >purchased, please mention these too, although my budget
> is
> >limited. Any Help appreciated. Thanks
> >.
> >

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