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sunandoghosh

Operating Systems - choice - simultaneous or alternative

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Respected Gurus and dear friends,

I always have used one HARD DISK with two partitions....running windows xp

Now i have also added one extra harddisk with again two partitions using windows server 2000...

Now problem is that currently what i do is depending on which one i want to use; i change BIOS settings at time of machine start by kepping press DEL so that it takes me to BIOS settings and there i choose one out of two hard disks...by modifying boot priority settings...

I was wondering is it possible to have (say) a screen which gives me option to choose any one from BOTH hard disk instead of changing BIOS settings everytime i start my machine....

Any idea / suggestion/ solution/ guide would be more than appreciated....

Thanks

Sunando

sunandoghosh at rediffmail dot com

Zimbo

Yes this can be done, it is called "Multi-Booting" or "Dual Booting"

I am not sure how easy it will be seeing as though both operating systems are already installed but usually you install operating systems in the following order:
MS-DOS, Windows 95, 98, Me. Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP

Here are some websites that might help:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...re/2000xp.mspx
http://www.winxpfix.com/page5.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...t/mltiboot.asp

We should be able to edit your "boot.ini" file and add you second operating system.

Boot into your Windows 2000 drive and run "msconfig" from the RUN menu. START -- RUN -- MSCONFIG

Go to the Boot.ini tab and either write down everything it has in it or just do a print screen and post it on the site for us.

If you are an IT bof then you could try it yourself, all we are going to do is add the line under "Operating Systems" to your Windows XP boot.ini.

If you are unsure then just post a screenshot of your boot.ini file on the forum and we will show you exactly what you need to do. (by the way I have never tried doing it this way, but it shoud work)

Things we need to know:

When you boot into your Windows XP, what drive is your second hard drive showing up as (D; E ?)
Maybe give us the information from both boot.ini files
Which operating system would you like to use as your default OS