In my opinion, a down and dirty way to do this would be to set up each
drive as the master drive on different ide ports.  Then, when the need
arises, you can go in and reassign the boot order for the drives in the
CMOS.
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?
>
> Bob Zuccarello

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