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Multiboot - W2K - access to HDD

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by vintage

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I am working on Dell Inspiron 8000 with 20Gb harddisk. I created a partition (c:\) with W2K Pro, another partition (e:\) with W2K Pro and a third (f:\) with WXP Beta2.

When I boot the W2KPro on the c:\-drive i do not have access to the other drives, as I want it to be.

But when I boot the W2KPro on the e:\ or the XP on the f:\ I have access to the c:\. I do not want to have access to the c:\. I want the three configs to be seperated completely.

How can I solve this problem.

Tx.

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by magetower

Get removable carriges and separate HDs. This is your best bet.

To boot the system all the installed OSs have to have access to the primary partition because all the boot files are located there. If you want to keep the OS separated on a single HDD then make 4 partitions and keep the C: as a small FAT partition with just enough room for MSDOS (or 95/98) to support multi-booting and place your working W2K/WXP installs on the other partitions.

enjoy

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