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Booting from 2 hard disks
Name: Davy Date: February 28, 2000 at 04:49:28 Pacific
Comment:
I have added and additonal hard drive to my computer. I made the new one Primary master and swapped the jumpers on the old one to make it the Primary Slave. Everything works fine, but from tiem to time I need to boot the operating system from the old hard disk (the old disk has not been modified in any way and should still have all it's boot files and operating system). Is there a way of setting a script to come up with a menu offerring the choice to boot from one or the other. Both operating systems are Windows 98 Thanks.
Name: smallfuture Date: February 28, 2000 at 07:06:54 Pacific
Reply:
suggest you get hold of partition magic, or ranesh's partition manager [free] and install in one drive to create a boot menu.
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Response Number 2
Name: davy Date: February 28, 2000 at 09:27:38 Pacific
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Thanks for the above
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Response Number 3
Name: Richard Date: February 28, 2000 at 10:08:22 Pacific
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Excuse me for jumping into the middle of this thread, but I was also trying to think of a way to boot from two hard disks. Is it possible to create a floppy boot disk which will tell Windows which drive to boot from?
Also, where can one find ranesh's partition manager?
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Response Number 4
Name: Lazarus Date: February 28, 2000 at 14:44:46 Pacific
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