>As another option, you can set up a dual boot using the two separate
>drives.  I've never personally set up a dual boot system but I have
>review the steps and it doesn't seem that difficult.  Perhaps other
>members of this list can give advice, or you can Google for the info.
>
>Tony Mayer
>
>
>Bob Z wrote:
> 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. Can anyone help me and guide me in the right
>direction. I
> do not want to dual boot the system using only one drive. I have several
> important programs that work on Win98 but will not work on XP (I tried and
> programs have no updates to XP). My computer will support both drives and
>my
> motherboard/cpu is relatively new. I need to be able to boot each OS from
>a
> cold start. Are their any articles that will guide me through this
>process?
***************************************************a cursory reply
***************************************************for which I apologize:

the shareware BootIT(NextGeneration) can be used for dual booting, I dual
boot win98FE and Freebsd.  _AT_ each boot, before booting, there is
an icon through which, one can save any partition to any fat32 one;
given enough space on it;
 IE if you setup XP w/
fat32, you can image-to-file-on-xp your win98 partition,
and vice versa,  and if a
reinstall ever appears warranted, you maybe can just delete the partition
in question
and restore the image into the freespace.
(of course before deleting the one w/ BootIt installed, be sure
the backup image also has BootIT installed...and that *may* require the
BootIt CDR, I forget!  ) OR the backup can be onto a
cdr set.  Better, arrange one or both disks to have dedicated image-file
drives (within an extended partition) as delete-file, reboot, create-file
results in ZERO
fragmentation.
as in, backup C: to G: every week; the only files on G: being C drive image
files;
Caveats, however, mean that partition-planning should be
done well in advance, studying the help pages at .terabyteunlimited.
(bootit)
for xp-specific details, Bios pages somewhere for drive-size details, etc...

No time to review my notes for specifics, so please consider this just a
*general*
recommendation.  trying to write every detail, I would leave out something
pertinent...

Jeff Bouquet
>
> Bob Zuccarello
>
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