Hi, I have WindowsME installed on one hard drive (primary) and Windows XP installed on another (slave). I had windowsME installed before I even put in the slave drive, but when I installed windowsXP on the slave, it assumed the role of default OS. I've been wanting to get back to windowsME for a while, but I don't know how to switch operating systems. I tried two things already:

A) switching Default OS in Computer Management. Only windows XP showed up on the list, probably because ME is on another drive rather than partitioned.
B) tried switching the boot order of the drives in BIOS, got some stupid "could not find so and so, restart computer" message, so I put it back to normal.

Please help, thanks.

Wow, tricky one this....

Ok, well the only real way i can see you doing this is to copy all data that you want to keep over to the ME drive then unplug the 2nd (XP) hdd. If you want to wipe the drive after you have copied the data and you're booting happily into ME, grab a bootdisk from bootdisk.com and use FDisk/Format in Dos.

Im not sure but do the fixmbr and fixboot commands also work for multi boot systems? It should atleast be possible to go back to winme but winxp might not boot anymore..

Hi thanks for the replys. I was under the impression that having two different operating systems was easy, especially on seperate hard drives. I guess there's lots of misleading info. Anyway, I read the Fixmbr and Fixboot commands, and I'm not sure exactly how to use them (or where to enter them...Start>Run?). If I wanted to keep both OS's bootable, what would be the surefire way to see if that's possible (step by step with the commands). The reason I want to keep both OS's intact is because I have a game that runs only on XP (San Andreas) and I have BF1942, which for some reason windows XP does NOT like the install disc.

While I've got a thread going, can Linux run Windows XP and lower version apps and games well?

thanks

Hellow everyone
Mutliple OS's is easiest on the 1 hard drive. However, XP was a major upgrade from ME - I'm not sure why bronto would want to go back to what is easily the worst OS every created by Microsoft.

To do this, you need to modify the boot.ini file located in the root drive of the master drive. it's a tricky thing, but very possible.

If you have the need to do this, please post a new thread with all your computer details, and i'll see if we can't create a new boot.ini file for you - i won't post the solution to this one as it could break someone elses.