Can i make it dual boot

[Naren]

Hi,

Presantly i am working on winxp having only c: drive.Now i am going
to add another harddisk which is already contain O/S win2000 with C,D,E
drives.I am going to use winxp so if i add win2000 path on my winxp
boot.ini, can win2000 works.

Can anybady help in this regard.

Thnks in advance..

Cheers,
Naren.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

Presantly i am working on winxp having only c: drive.Now i am going
to add another harddisk which is already contain O/S win2000 with C,D,E
drives.I am going to use winxp so if i add win2000 path on my winxp
boot.ini, can win2000 works.

Can anybady help in this regard.

Thnks in advance..

Cheers,
Naren.

This will only work if your BIOS has a facility to swap disks.
If it does not have this facility then you must install a third-
party boot manager such as XOSL (free!) so that you can
selectively hide the partitions from each other.

 

[Naren]

Thnks for your help. I am going to try with your suggestions. If any
options please guide me.

Thnks once again.

Cheers,
Naren

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thnks for your help. I am going to try with your suggestions. If any
options please guide me.

Thnks once again.

Cheers,
Naren

I note that you posted much the same question in a Win2000
newsgroup. This is called "multi-posting", and it gets you
very unpopular among respondents because it leads to
duplication of effort. Use cross-posting if you wish to reach
a larger audience, not multi-posting.
http://www.aspfaq.com/5003
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

 

[Andy]

Hi,

Presantly i am working on winxp having only c: drive.Now i am going
to add another harddisk which is already contain O/S win2000 with C,D,E
drives.I am going to use winxp so if i add win2000 path on my winxp
boot.ini, can win2000 works.

Can anybady help in this regard.

Thnks in advance..

Cheers,
Naren.

First connect the Windows 2000 drive alone to see if it boots. If it
does, connect it as slave to the Windows XP drive. In boot.ini. the
second disk is rdisk(1).

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

First connect the Windows 2000 drive alone to see if it boots. If it
does, connect it as slave to the Windows XP drive. In boot.ini. the
second disk is rdisk(1).

Your recipe is likely to make the XP drive letter D:. What about
the countless references to drive letter C: that WinXP has from
its original installation?

 

[Andy]

Your recipe is likely to make the XP drive letter D:. What about
the countless references to drive letter C: that WinXP has from
its original installation?

Why would it be D? The XP drive is still master, and the Windows 2000
would be the slave.. In any case that's not how things work. Once
Windows has been installed, changing the physical positions of the
drives do not affect how letters are assigned to the partitions that
existed at the time of the Windows installation. That information is
contained in the registry. So in this situation when Windows 2000 is
first booted as a slave to the Windows XP drive, it sees its
partitions as C, D, and E, and the new XP partition would be given the
next unused letter.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Why would it be D? The XP drive is still master, and the Windows 2000
would be the slave.. In any case that's not how things work. Once
Windows has been installed, changing the physical positions of the
drives do not affect how letters are assigned to the partitions that
existed at the time of the Windows installation. That information is
contained in the registry. So in this situation when Windows 2000 is
first booted as a slave to the Windows XP drive, it sees its
partitions as C, D, and E, and the new XP partition would be given the
next unused letter.

I have seen some systems where things happened the way
you say. I have seen even more systems where the drive
letters were incorrect. Perhaps the OP will let us know how
he fared.