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by poois

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What should I do to make one PC running with two operatiing system? can somebody teach about this? Thank you very much..... :)

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by trash_can101

If you have two seperate hard drives you can have a different OS. set up on each hard drive. You can then have one drive connected to ide 1 and the other ide 2. Then you can jump into Bios Setup when your system boots, and choose which drive to bootfrom, for which OS. you want. Hope this helps. Good luck!

by dave.raj

Hello Mate, Use a software called Partition Magic 6 to partition your harddrive, allocate how much space you want on the spare drive and then install the operating system that you want. Partition magic 6 also comes with Bootmagic and this will allowyou to choose which operating system you want to use when you boot the machine. Cheers

by ebob

I like to use "System Commander" (www.v-com.com) to manage multiple O/S on one box.

This lets me use radically different O/S's (E.g., Solaris and WinNT4S) which is not practical (or I believe even possible) using "boot.ini". It also lets me use almost identical O/S's (e.g., Win98SE and WinME) without the installation of one "upgrading" the older, or being prevented by a "newer" version.

by p-barrett

It depends on which 2 operating systems you want to run. If you're runnign WinNt and Win 9x for example, install your win 9x and then install Win Nt as a dual boot. you don't need bootmagic as they are on the same partition. If on the other hand you want to install say, Linux and windows, then I would install windows 9x on one partition, and then install Linux on another, however make sure you know which Linux server you are installing as some will delete all info on the drive and not just the partition. Good luck.

by troubleshootergurl

I have been working with Partioning for 2 months now and I have three operating systems running on my machine. I am currently using this great software called Partion Magic. If you have enough room on your hard drive you can have up to 4 partitions. Maybe even more, I am unsure.

Its great. I have all of my documentation on Windows 98, Graphic's on Windows ME and games on Windows 2000. I boot using PQMagic, choosing which operating system I want to utilize.

Its a great way learn more about your PC. You can use the Help option in Pmagic to do the partioning.

Good luck with your partitioning.

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