Two seperate syatems on two drives

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I would appreciate some simple information please, I would like to put
a separate operating system on a separate drive, and the separate
drive is on a hard drive enclosure connected to the mother board. The
main oper. Sys is windows xp pro and the one I want to put in is win
98 2nd edition. If someone could give me some simple directions. And I
would like to be able to go into the bios and tell it what drive to go
to depending on what operating system I want to run. The reason for
this is I am retired now and have always been interested in computers
but never was able to wrap my head around this stuff but now seem able
to understand a few things, thanks to anyone that is going to respond.
 
I would appreciate some simple information please, I would like to put
a separate operating system on a separate drive, and the separate
drive is on a hard drive enclosure connected to the mother board. The
main oper. Sys is windows xp pro and the one I want to put in is win
98 2nd edition. If someone could give me some simple directions. And I
would like to be able to go into the bios and tell it what drive to go
to depending on what operating system I want to run. The reason for
this is I am retired now and have always been interested in computers
but never was able to wrap my head around this stuff but now seem able
to understand a few things, thanks to anyone that is going to respond.
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You do know you could have both operating systems on two drives as you say,
(or one drive partitioned into two even) and just have a boot menu and
select which o/s you which to use, you don't need to go into the BIOS to
select which o/s each time.
I'm doing this at the moment, currently dual booting XP and Vista.

SteveH

SteveH
 
SteveH said:
You do know you could have both operating systems on two drives as you
say, (or one drive partitioned into two even) and just have a boot menu
and select which o/s you which to use, you don't need to go into the BIOS
to select which o/s each time.
I'm doing this at the moment, currently dual booting XP and Vista.

SteveH

SteveH
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Hi,

There is no big problem having two different OS's running within the
computer on different partitions, whether on one hdd or two. The problem
that you will have though is using a hdd in the external enclosure to have
its own OS. I assume the drive is connected with a USB cable. Currently
there are very few motherboards that will support this type of booting of an
OS, unless you want to go with Apple and run OS X and run a firewire cable.
As a matter of fact you might even consider getting an Apple with an Intel
chip that runs both OS X and XP on separate partitions. It won't run '98
though.
 
Hi,

There is no big problem having two different OS's running within the
computer on different partitions, whether on one hdd or two. The problem
that you will have though is using a hdd in the external enclosure to have
its own OS. I assume the drive is connected with a USB cable. Currently
there are very few motherboards that will support this type of booting of an
OS, unless you want to go with Apple and run OS X and run a firewire cable.
As a matter of fact you might even consider getting an Apple with an Intel
chip that runs both OS X and XP on separate partitions. It won't run '98
though.
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The second os would not be on a usb port it is on a hard drive
enclosure that is connected to the mother board...thanks
 
Hi sog,
it is very easy to do ,as you said you want to install on different
hard drives ,first check for the right jumpers on the hard drive , if
you are using single IDE for both drives one should be master and other
should be slave .both cannot be Master or Slave on same IDE channel at
the same time . but on different channel they can be.
second install windows 98 on one drive with FAT32 file system and
install XP with FAT32 file system (if you want to access files on XP
through 98), if not then install XP with NTFS file system.
once done Specify the default operating system for startup , you can do
it by starting the computer. then go to START->MY COMPUTER-> RIGHT
CLICK->PROPERTIES->ADVANCE->STARTUP AND RECOVERY-> SETTINGS->EDIT(
SYSTEM STARTUP)
this will be something like :
*************************************
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

*********************************************
for dual boot copy last two lines and paste below the making some
changes like

******************************************************************
boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98Se "
/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

*******************************************************************

hope this will fix your problem
 
Hi sog,
it is very easy to do ,as you said you want to install on different
hard drives ,first check for the right jumpers on the hard drive , if
you are using single IDE for both drives one should be master and other
should be slave .both cannot be Master or Slave on same IDE channel at
the same time . but on different channel they can be.
second install windows 98 on one drive with FAT32 file system and
install XP with FAT32 file system (if you want to access files on XP
through 98), if not then install XP with NTFS file system.
once done Specify the default operating system for startup , you can do
it by starting the computer. then go to START->MY COMPUTER-> RIGHT
CLICK->PROPERTIES->ADVANCE->STARTUP AND RECOVERY-> SETTINGS->EDIT(
SYSTEM STARTUP)
this will be something like :
*************************************
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

*********************************************
for dual boot copy last two lines and paste below the making some
changes like

******************************************************************
boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98Se "
/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

*******************************************************************

hope this will fix your problem
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Thank you so much for the help everyone, but I still don't seem to
know how to do what I want to do which brings me to another question,
is there a newsgroup that anyone can recommend that can handle someone
that is trying to develop a hobby like this and needs a lot of
patience or someone that has a lot of patience and does not mind a
teaching type of thing. I tried installing the operating system on the
other drive and had no luck, the other drive is on an IDE hard disc
enclosure I also have a hard drive that I got out of another computer
with an operating system on it that I would like to put in the
enclosure but I get lost when I try to tell the bios to boot from the
IDE hard disc enclosure. Thanks so much, as I say I may be in the
wrong news group perhaps I should be on some type of green horn group.
When trying to put the second operating system on the second drive it
wouldn't let me because I was trying to put Win 98 on the second one
and win xp pro is on the main one.
 
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