Dual boot

[Bill]

This may be a little off topic, but i was wondering if anyone could tell me
something.....I currently have a dual-boot setup (2 seperate hard drives)Win
98SE on one drive (master, 10 GB) XP pro on the other (slave, 120 GB) I use
OSL2000 as a boot manager (considering getting rid of it) If I wipe the
first drive (with 98) and install Win 200 Pro will I have to do anything
special like reinstall XP or anything crazy like that, or should it work
fine. Also if I do this and assuming it works fine and I get rid of OSL2000,
will I need to make XP or 2000 do anything in order to use their boot
managers and have the option to boot to either OS? TIA

 

[Uncle John]

"Bill"

If you do not have a a bootamanger you can run Xp on one disk and Windows
2000 on the other. Unless you do some careful editing of the boot.ini file
for each system, one disk and its OS will be the master and when you start
your computer that disk will boot and you will have the choice of operating
system displayed.

If you edit the boot.ini files appropriately you can select whcih disk is
the first boot choice in your bios and the OS on that disk will boot
straight away.

Unless you want the additional security of being able to run the idle system
if the active disk crashes your best choice is to get rid of OSL2000 and
install Windows 2000 as a second OS instead of Win 98.
I suggest you check this link

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/administration/management/mltiboot.asp