Hi..I previously had windows ME running on my hard drive. Recently I bought a new hard drive and I set this new one to master and the old one to slave. Then I installed XP on the NEW one. Thus I have 2 OS on 2 different physical drives. XP on the master and ME on the slave. Does anyone know how I can setup a dual boot? I tried messing around with the boot.ini file in XP but no success. Thanks

uh oh. should have left me master and XP slave. this would give you boot options easy for you.

Try this! http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10106-100-1615497.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-20.1615497

Here's a trick I just learned but it only work if you have one ATA100 drive and one normal IDE drive. Set both drives as Master. Connect your old ME drive to the standard IDE connector on your mainboard. Connect the new drive to the ATA100 connector. Now you can go to the BIOS and select boot sequence. select ATA100 boot for XP and IDE controller boot for ME.

Try this! I´ts free and works realy fine. http://www.xosl.org/

Hi..just wondering....is it still possible to dual boot between XP and ME in my case if I chose the NTFS file system for XP where as my ME is using the FAT32 system.

Check this out: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prmc_str_masc.asp Its one a one line address, just drag and drop. Particular interest is the last 20 lines. If you boot XP from the system CD and go into recovery console, you can use the map command to show all operating systems across your disks and the paths needed by the boot.ini file. This web page also explains the structure of the boot.ini. Create the boot.ini file (if it doesnt already exist, in the root directory of the XP disk. Make sure the XP disk is set to the active partition in XP disk manager. And that the hard disk containing XP is the disk specified to boot from in the bios. On booting the XP disk, NTLDR reads the boot.ini file and displays a choice depnding on its contents. Rgds Paul