Two Hard drives, boot Win2K & Winnt 4.0

Go to any big computer store and purchase System Commander. It costs between 50 and 60 dollars. It lets you use multiple operating systems and asks at start up which one to load. Or you could just leave the case off and hook up one hard drive when you want to use one operating system and the other when you want to use the other operating system.

Phhhhht.....no need to buy additional programs.....got dos?

have the 6 gig drive be the master drive on ide port 1, have the 20gb drive be the slave...fdisk from dos, the master (6gb) drive, create a dos (fat16) primary partition of 500mb, load NT4 on drive one partition 1...
this becomes your "boot" drive, and will include all necessary files for winNT4. you may then include the remainder of the 6gb drive as NTFS secondary nt4 drive.
(NT4 will not boot from a win2k primary partition or fat32..and nt4 is very difficult to install on a primary partition of greater than 4gb. this is why ntboot is setup from dos)

My personal choice would be to setup a 100 mb or less dos drive as the primary on the 6gb drive, have it bootable with cdrom device support, (save the remaining 5.9gb for NT4) this gives 2 boot options, start from msdos or start from nt.

after nt is fully installed, you can disable the boot to dos option from winNT control panel.

after NT4 is fully setup, restart your system....enter bios, choose your boot sequence to allow boot to cdrom as the first option. (if this is not available, then boot to the dos partition with cdrom support as defined above) Insert the win2k CD, and restart.
Start the Win2k setup,you will get 2 choices, upgrade the current operating system or install to a seperate drive, do not choose upgrade, By selecting the second option, you will have the option of selecting which drive and partition to install win2k onto. This of coursewill be drive2, the 20gb drive.

this will offer you 3 boot options, until you disable boot to dos from winnt and/or win2k.

Good luck....
Dan Tomkinson

OR!!!!!!!!!!!
Another free alternative.
Although you did not mention anything else. Would be, when ever you want to change OS. Reboot into your bios and adjust the "boot device" to where the OS you want to use is at. Of course, you can only do this with modern bios on a P1 and up. NTFS partion will see another NTFS partion becareful installing software.

OR!!!!!!!!!!!
Another free alternative.
Although you did not mention anything else. Would be, when ever you want to change OS. Reboot into your bios and adjust the "boot device" to where the OS you want to use is at. Of course, you can only do this with modern bios on a P1 and up. NTFS partion will see another NTFS partion becareful installing software.

OR!!!!!!!!!!!
Another free alternative.
Although you did not mention anything else. Would be, when ever you want to change OS. Reboot into your bios and adjust the "boot device" to where the OS you want to use is at. Of course, you can only do this with modern bios on a P1 and up. NTFS partion will see another NTFS partion becareful installing software.

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