Need help in creating a dual (multi) boot system

[Fred Weather]

I have searched high and low on this with no luck.

I have three ide drives, two with a fresh (separate) install of XPpro.
Both will boot fine if I move the jumper to make them the master
drive. No problems. The third drive has no operating sys on it and is
used for storage only.

I want to be able to boot from the C or D drive without moving the
jumper. I have tried unsuccessfully by making changes to the boot.ini
in the C drive. Does the .ini file on the D drive need modifying too?

I tried Bootstar and it worked but when booting to the D drive, the C
and E drive wouldn't show up in a file manager and in the services
section (disk management) it showed the drives as "unallocated".

Is there a way to do this in the boot.ini? If not can it be done with
a boot manager? You'd think this would be a simple deal, but like
anything else in XP, it isn't.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Fred

 

[purplehaz]

You need a third party boot manager to do what you want. Try bootITng.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html