HI all !!!

I have this problem :

I have two hard drives or hard disk one with windows xp and the other with windows 98 . I need a boot menu but I cant do it ...

Please help !!!
I already used partition magic 7.0

If U post this in the "Hardware, Internet.........." Forum, the guys there might help you................;)

Moved to Hardware forum.

thats a strange problem

partition magic "can" from time to time be dodgey . . .

its happened to me before (not your problem) but where its screwed my hdd and took some friggin' around to fix him ;)

c what the others say, but I think its parition magic

well.. if it is two hard disk.. hmmm... it will be a bit difficult.. if two os in one hard drive could be done...

well, tell you what.. the best way for u to go about this is that get two mobile rack or there are some in the market that give you two in one so you can switch around with your hard drive.. this is what i'm using now... it is risky to use partition magic.. i never trust this kind of software.. :rolleyes:

easy mate

you will have 1 boot.ini & it'll be on your active partition/disk

anyway, past this into a text file & call it boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

this is the important bit:

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT

partition is the partition number starting from 1
multi is your disk controller number

Disk is always 0 (unless your using SCSI) & Rdisk is your disk number,

\WINNT is the directory u installed windows in
you probably used \WINDOWS so just replace it and call it whatever you want in the next line

i'm sure you can now manage to add WIN98 to that list too and have a boot menu when you load up

thanks a lot !!! I will try this ... But keep posting in ase it dosent work !!!


THANKS TO ALL

PLEaSE lior tell me how the new file will be ... because Im new in this and my english is not so good ...

THANKS A LOT !!!

well make a file called boot.ini and place it in the main partition

then copy and paste what i put before and edit it to suit your needs

where did u install windows? for both
just into c:\windows for both?

I have windows xp in c:\ and windows98 in d:\

So tell me how the file will be .. sorry but im very new!!!

THANKS A LOT

get osloader2000 from www.osloader.com


that should solve ur problem:)

I already use this and it dosent work !!! REMEMBER I have 2 OS in teo different HArd disks !!!

Iceblu im going to kill you !!! I used that program and now I cant access to windows 98 it says win.com not found .... I tried to reinstall but I cant access to the hard disk

ANOTHER PROBLEM !!! PLEASE HELP !!!

well ur not the first person to have said that :p

anyways....i think ur pretty much a novice coz i know a friend who has used that successfully....

i dunno what to say .......

Format ur HDD and try installing only XP...or if u want XP and 98 , Install 98 first , partition ur HDD and put XP in ur slave drive....

and if that does not work ......well , call "THE COMPUTER GUY".

http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/howtodualboot/

if this doesnt help u i dont know what will

Originally posted by IceBlu
well ur not the first person to have said that :p

anyways....i think ur pretty much a novice coz i know a friend who has used that successfully....

i dunno what to say .......

Format ur HDD and try installing only XP...or if u want XP and 98 , Install 98 first , partition ur HDD and put XP in ur slave drive....

and if that does not work ......well , call "THE COMPUTER GUY".

computer guy sounds like a safe bet ;)