There must be some exceptions to this.  I have a machine with dual hard
drives, 1 active DOS partition on each.  They are set up as primary master
and slave.  The primary master has Win95, primary slave has Win98.  I enter
the motherboard BIOS and change to boot from C, D, E, etc. based on my
desires.  When each drive was installed and configured, it was the only
drive the system could see.  If the 30 Gig w/WinME and the 60 Gig w/Win2K
are set up to work with this system, then check your BIOS to see if it
supports booting from a selected drive as mine does.

Windows does some funny things behind the scenes, but it has not affected my
functionality.  For instance, IE places temp files on the drive with the
most available space.  The drive letters play tricks too.  When booting to
the BIOS D drive, Windows calls this the C drive and the other becomes D.
Use distinctive volume labels and you shouldn't have any problem.

Let us know what you work out.
Ron Jobe
----- Original Message -----
From: "joseph marty" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Switching Hard drives question


> The only way you can have two bootable OS's on the same system is to have
a boot manager program to hide one of them from the system.Partition Magic
has one, but for a one shot
---ship---
>
> >Not long ago I replaced my 30 gig hard drive with a 60 gig new hard drive
on
> >my pc.  The old 30 gig HD had Windows ME on it.  The new 60 gig has
Windows
> >2000.  I also have a 10 gig hard drive on the computer.  All of the hard
> >drives are Western Digital and should be compatible.
> >
> >My question is can I remove the 10 gig HD and connect the old 30 gig HD
with
> >Windows ME on it leaving the the 60 gig HD with Windows 2000.   In other
> >words replace the 10 gig HD with the old 30 gig HD with Windows ME.  The
> >question is having two HD's with different operating systems.  The reason
I
> >want to do this is to remove some data that became corrupt in the change
> >over.  I backed up all of the data and most came thru find,
> >however, some of my medical records on "Access" are corrupt and I would
like
> >very much to get the information off.
> >
> >How would I be able to boot/get to the Windows Me?
> >Is this possible?
> >
> >After removing the needed data, I will probably reformat it to Windows
2000.
> >

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