Even if you had two physical disks, you would still see
the WinME partition while running under WinXP.
Here are the steps involved in setting up a robust
multi-booting system. They assume that the boot
loader and WinME go onto disk A, and that WinXP
is already installed on disk B. Other combinations
are easily achieved.
1. Create a 15 MByte primary partition on disk A.
2. Create a further primary partition on disk A
for WinME, and make it the primary and active
partition.
3. Load WinME into this partition.
4. Load the XOSL boot loader into the 15 MByte partition.
6. Launch XOSL and include WinME in its menu.
7. Connect disk B: as a slave disk.
8. Include WinXP in the XOSL boot menu.
9. Instruct XOSL to hide the WinXP partition when booting
into WinME.
10. Instruct XOSL to hide the WinME partition when booting
into WinXP.
You should also consider setting up a data partition that
is visible to both OSs. It must be the last partition on disk B.
You will find that hidden partitions are completely invisible
to the currently active OS. It is as if they did not exist.
"Gabe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2a5ab01c466f2$97682480$(E-Mail Removed)...
> If I physically had two separate hard drives, would this
> still happen. I don't want XP to know that the other
> operating system even exists. Of course you would know at
> startup. Does that program that you are referring to work
> easily, and are you pretty sure that it would do
> that...isolate the two OSs? I don't mind reloading
> everything. I already have all of the important stuff
> backed up anyway.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >"Gabe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
> >news:2a8a501c466dc$cd96d8f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I installed a dual boot system on my computer using ME
> and
> >> XP. Everything worked fine. My question is...in XP, I
> >> can see both volumes, IE drive C and drive F. Is there
> >> any way that I can stop drive C from showing up in XP so
> >> no one tampers with the files I have on the ME system?
> I
> >> looked at all the options for the "my computer" veiw in
> >> XP, and none of them show how to hide a drive. ME
> doesn't
> >> show both drives, only the one it is using.
> >
> >You would have to use a third-party boot manager to do
> this -
> >in fact, it is the recommended way to do multi-booting.
> XOSL
> >is one you could use, and it's free.
> >
> >In your case it's too late for such an approach, because
> >everything is already installed. Incidentally, WinME does
> >not show both drives because you most likely installed
> >WinXP on an NTFS partition. WinME cannot read NTFS
> >partitions.
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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