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by yimsemail 1 view

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Is there software or hardware on the market that will support booting 2 different OS's from two different hard drives without entering the bios every time I boot?

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by dmiles

You can download a boot manager from the internet
1)http://www.mstboot.com/en
2) http://www.boot-us.com/
Installation of a dual boot system does not require another boot manager,usually when you set the dual boot up on seperate drives it will give you a boot manager and it does not require opening the bios setup

Check any site for dual boot setup

by thechas

Actually, XP has it's own built-in boot manager.

I'm not sure that you can enable it with your present setup.

Set up your BIOS to boot off of the XP drive, and then edit boot.ini to allow the option to boot to the W98 drive.
(boot.ini is a hidden system file in the root folder of the XP boot drive)
For command syntax, check out the boot.ini section at www.systeminternals.com

Chas

by f-baer

a bootloader like grubb or from xp must resist in bootsector. some boards have multiboot on bootscreen (elitegrpoup..). try vmware or use the bootloader from xp, install first w9x on ide0, than xp on ide1. xp writes the loader on ide0 and capture 9x. hth

by d_v ant

Take a look at the Romtec Trios and Trios II. They allow you to boot from three seperate hard drives. One advantage this has ove a boot manager is it will isolate the unused drives from the system so that you do not inadvertantly erase, format, or otherwise damage the drives.

by akula

Install Windows 9x FIRST. Then install XP, and set the install directory to the other hard drive.

At boot time you will be given the choice of OS.

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