Jun;
I'm kinda' doing now what you want to do ,  if I understand you correctly.
I have two hard drives (one with win98se and one with win2k) attached to the
onboard ATA/66
 controller on an Abit BE6 mobo, I simply press ctrl + H on boot-up
 and switch the boot drive in the Hightpoint controller bios for
to the drive with the desired OS.
 It works okay for me, cause I don't often boot to Win98SE now.

  I previously installed Win2K over Win98 on the same drive, then it booted
to a prompt
which asked which OS I wanted to boot to. That worked well also.
 Don't think you really need a mechanical hard drive switch to dual boot.

I third option I have used for linux/win9X/win2k switching are removable
hard drive trays that fit a 5-1/4 slot, and allow you to swap hard drives
easily without taking apart the computer and swapping cables.
Here is a link with a picture of a removeable hard drive tray:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=205-7036

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ultra" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCBUILD] Harddisk switch


> I'm thinking to add a "dual-boot" switch.
> I'm having an idea for my perfect dual-boot system. What I will need is a
> "Harddisk switch", which I can choose which harddisk got power. So that I
> can add another harddisk to my win2k machine, when I need win98, I can
shut
> down win2k, "switch" harddisk to win98 HDD -> boot into win98 ... I don't
> want Boot manager software solution for personal reason. I also can't
afford
> to mess up my win2k, so I don't want to "trick" win2k boot record around,
> just in case if something goes wrong...

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