Dual boot 2 hard drives?

[Sam]

Hi All,

I am a novice at this and would appreciate assistance. I have 2 hard drives
in my computer. I want to wipe them both clean because of viruses, etc. and
on one hard drive place Windows 2000 and on the other Windows 98SE. Is there
anywhere that provides a step by step on how to do this in order. I am told
it shouldn't be that hard?

Thanks,
Sam

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi All,

I am a novice at this and would appreciate assistance. I have 2 hard drives
in my computer. I want to wipe them both clean because of viruses, etc. and
on one hard drive place Windows 2000 and on the other Windows 98SE. Is there
anywhere that provides a step by step on how to do this in order. I am told
it shouldn't be that hard?

Thanks,
Sam

By far the most robust and flexible approach would be to use a
third-party boot manager. I recommend XOSL - it's free. Here
is how I would to it:

1. Install Win98 on disk1.
2. Remove disk1, install disk2.
3. Install Win2000 on disk2.
4. Install disk1 as a slave disk.
5. Reboot with a win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com)
5. Install XOSL in the Win98 partition of disk1.
6. Add Win98 and Win2000 to the XOSL selection menu.
7. Instruct XOSL to swap disks when booting into Win98.

 

[PA20Pilot]

XOSL instructions

http://www.tprthai.net/xosl.htm

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[Colon Terminus]

Hi All,

I am a novice at this and would appreciate assistance. I have 2 hard drives
in my computer. I want to wipe them both clean because of viruses, etc. and
on one hard drive place Windows 2000 and on the other Windows 98SE. Is there
anywhere that provides a step by step on how to do this in order. I am told
it shouldn't be that hard?

Thanks,
Sam

It really is quite easy.

Install Windows '98
Install Windows 2000

The Win2K install will recognize that Win98 is there and will automagically
ceate a boot menu for you, giving you the choice of which O/S to boot.

Couldn't be easier.

 

[Sam]

Just wanted to say thanks to all for the help. Things are great now.

Sam