switching OS's in a multi booted system

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No, you must reboot your computer.

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| can I switch operating systems in a system with 2 OS's through the keyboard
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Ctrl + Shift + Esc | Alt + U + R |
When the machine reboots select the OS from the Boot Menu.

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Yes. Just reboot from the keyboard and select the OS you want to boot into.

However, and this is really cool, if you want to be able to switch back and
forth quickly you might consider using Virtual PC
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx or VMWare
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ . Rather than setting up multiple
partitions and booting from one to the other you create a "virtual pc" using
the app. Once installed you can easily use the keyboard to simply boot the
virtual OS and switch back and forth with a few mouse clicks or your
keyboard. Personally I have several OS setup this way and can swap between
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I can even
drag and drop files from one desktop to another.
 
thank you for the helpful answers, I would however like to re-word the
question, Is it possible to switch OR's, without rebooting and is it possible
to hide the fact that there are 2 OR's installed?--
JMB


Harry Ohrn said:
Yes. Just reboot from the keyboard and select the OS you want to boot into.

However, and this is really cool, if you want to be able to switch back and
forth quickly you might consider using Virtual PC
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx or VMWare
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ . Rather than setting up multiple
partitions and booting from one to the other you create a "virtual pc" using
the app. Once installed you can easily use the keyboard to simply boot the
virtual OS and switch back and forth with a few mouse clicks or your
keyboard. Personally I have several OS setup this way and can swap between
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I can even
drag and drop files from one desktop to another.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


jmbliss said:
can I switch operating systems in a system with 2 OS's through the
keyboard
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jmbliss said:
thank you for the helpful answers, I would however like to re-word the
question, Is it possible to switch OR's, without rebooting and is it
possible to hide the fact that there are 2 OR's installed?--
JMB
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No. The only way it is possible to use two operating systems without
rebooting - or without using a removal hot-swappable hard drive - is to
run a virtual machine in a program like VMWare or VirtualPC.

If you use a conventional boot manager, there is no way to hide the
various operating systems installed from the user. And obviously the
user would notice a hot-swappable drive arrangement.

What are you trying to accomplish?

Malke
 
Boy, Malke, you must be an early riser. ;-)

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