Thanks, I have my reason to have a switch. First, I don't have more free 5"
bay, so I can't  have removable HDD kit. I too can change Boot order in BIOS
on my A7V, but my computer is not only for myself, my family also use it,
and I'm the only "computer person who knows how to do things properly", so I
can't have the "BIOS" option too. In order to use win2k as boot manager, I
need to load win98 first, but I've already had win2k first. Last, I want
everything to be safe, so the safest way is to bring unused HDD off line
(one OS is not possible to mess up the other).

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Fisk" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Harddisk switch


> 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,

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