I am running win 2000 pro (NTFS)and it's working fine, so I wouldn't want to mess with it reformatting or partitioning. I intend to buy a new hard disk and would like to run win 98 on it. I would use 2000 for graphis (my profession) and win 98 for music (hobby) Ideally, I would turn my computer on and boot up win 2000 as default, but if I wanted to make music, I would, say, insert a floppy with a boot script on it, and my win 98 disk would boot up. Alternativly, I could enter the bios setup on starting the PC, and select which disk to boot. Would this cause a load of conflicts? Basicly I'd like to use one computer as if it were 2 -Am I dreaming or could this be reality?

it is possible...you will need to edit the boot.ini file...there should be no problems at all

Thanks for the help. I'm glad it's possible and easy, but which disk would the boot.ini to edit be on? And any idea of how I'd need to edit it? I'm not much of a techie! Liam

Its too bad you didn't have win98 on there first. Then you could put 2000 on there and it would dual-boot easy as pie. But if you load win98 second I don't think it will boot to 2000. You could of course install 98, then reinstall 2000) There are also issues of fat32 and ntfs incompatibilty to deal with. So the simplest thing would be to get a program called "system commander" It does just what you want it too, and its simple. As for editing the Boot.ini. Windows 98 doesn't us this file. Win2k uses it to tell the operating system where to find the nt system files. You usually only edit the boot.ini if you are replacing the primary drive in a mirror set. Then you need to edit the ARC path in the boot.ini file to point to the other drive(thats after you break the mirror set, and assuming your operating system isn't part of the mirror)

OSL2000 get it at download.com I use that to boot either 98 or 2k. It works fine. I think it will do what you want. You disconnect your current harddisk and put in the new one, install 98 on it, go to dos mode to install OSL2000, then reconnent the other harddisk and boot whichever you want.. from a nice little menu.. I haven't tried it but it should work. So far I had 98 on my disk first and 2000 afterwards.. and then OSL.. G'luck Gathlon.

thanks for the tip, ill try OSL2000