Always dangerous to jump into the middle of a thread with having seen the
origin or the answers to date, but I plunge nonetheless (with apologies if I
misread the situation or missed duplicate answers).

If one of your drives is a master and the other a slave (i.e. usual
configuration) why can you not set up a dual boot anyway, and have XP on
your master drive and SE on your slave drive (or vice versa)?

I have done this without problem when I first installed XP - kept my old
boot as a precautionary backup - since deleted. When you are installing the
second OS, the first OS doesn't care where on your physical platters it is,
as long as it can find it, and as long as you have a valid boot partition on
your active drive.

When using a dual boot even on a single drive, you are advised to name the
"windows" OS folders quite differently from one another to keep them very
separate, so why not go one step further and have them on separate logical
drives or even separate physical drives?

Michael


>I want to install two hard drives on my computer with two different
>operating systems (Win98SE and XP Pro). I want to boot them up individually
>as my need arises.

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