I know a similar post has already been made but it provided no useful info at all. I am currently running Win98SE and would like to dualboot Win98SE and WinME. I already have a second hard drive which I can install WinME on. How do I install ME without having it screw up Win98SE. Please give help me out.

The way i did it was put windows 98 on one drive and Windows ME on the other. Then on boot up i just changed the boot sequence from one drive to the other and I was able to use the windows of my choice. Right now i'am working on using System Commander. ME does not like the program so now i have downloaded a patch and I'am going to try it again.

Do that & use Boot Magic

If you are switching drives by changing the BIOS set up, which tells the computer which drive to boot, it will work. However, Lets say you have loaded some programs on both drives like IE 5 or Norton Utilities whatever other software you choose, you will probably create shortcuts to launch these programs. If then decide to check either drive with Norton Utilities,it will attempt to delete one set of shortcuts (the drive that is not your booting drive). The reason is that when you tell your Bios to boot from drive D, WindowsOS will re-assign letters turning your "D" into "C" drive and making the shortcuts point to the other drive. I don't know if this problem exists with SystemCommander or BootMagic. If either of these programs allow WindowsOS to re-assign drive letters I suspect you will have the same problem.

What BIOS John! If you have harddrive autodetect in the BIOS and two ide drives hooked up in the primary, the drive will boot no matter which drive you put power to. It does not matter whether one is master and the other slave or whether they are both master--unless you might want to boot them both together on occasion. Then you need one each. You don't need any material if you are willing to run with the cover off. you just plug one power plug onto whichever drive you want to boot. Alternatively, you can drill a small hole in the front or back of the computer for a 3 position switch, on-off-on, with which to select the drive to boot. I use a Radio Shack 275-1533 Center Off Toggle Switch (DPDT) and a power cable y adapter. I cut the y in two. The bottom part of the Y solders to the two center posts. These are the yellow and red leads. The black leads don't need to be cut. Then I attach each part of the fork in the Y to one end of the switch. What you have is power--yellow on one side and red on the other--comes into the center of the switch and comes out at the selected end. You can then add scsi drives and another switch or switches to run as many single drives with different systems as you desire. And it is all one computer. This should terrorize Microsoft as you might want to pay for one OS and run it numerous times, one for CD recording, one for the internet, etc. That way you do not need to worry that your CD recording software has a virus if it acts strange. Further, if you have two switches, you can select two drives and copy from one to the other without taking the cover off. (The SCSI is the slave even to an IDE slave drive) "It works for me," as Hunter says.

What BIOS John! If you have harddrive autodetect in the BIOS and two ide drives hooked up in the primary, the drive will boot no matter which drive you put power to. It does not matter whether one is master and the other slave or whether they are both master--unless you might want to boot them both together on occasion. Then you need one each. You don't need any material if you are willing to run with the cover off. you just plug one power plug onto whichever drive you want to boot. Alternatively, you can drill a small hole in the front or back of the computer for a 3 position switch, on-off-on, with which to select the drive to boot. I use a Radio Shack 275-1533 Center Off Toggle Switch (DPDT) and a power cable y adapter. I cut the y in two. The bottom part of the Y solders to the two center posts. These are the yellow and red leads. The black leads don't need to be cut. Then I attach each part of the fork in the Y to one end of the switch. What you have is power--yellow on one side and red on the other--comes into the center of the switch and comes out at the selected end. You can then add scsi drives and another switch or switches to run as many single drives with different systems as you desire. And it is all one computer. This should terrorize Microsoft as you might want to pay for one OS and run it numerous times, one for CD recording, one for the internet, etc. That way you do not need to worry that your CD recording software has a virus if it acts strange. Further, if you have two switches, you can select two drives and copy from one to the other without taking the cover off. (The SCSI is the slave even to an IDE slave drive) "It works for me," as Hunter says. (It is best to use one Maxtor and one Seagate or Samsung as not all brands will tolerate one another with the power off on one with the cable hooked up to both. Two of the same brand seldom work although Western Digital told me they thought their drives would work with one another as long as one was slave and the other was master. I never got around to trying it though.)