Hey all. Anyone with any info on how to take an existing XP system, and add a 98 drive and enable dual boot where the systems and drives are kept completely separate? Thanks for any help! Eddie

install the 98 drive as either a slave to XP drive restart with XP cd do a re install

Not sure whether the "98 drive" has Windows already installed on it or not. If you want to use two drives with two preinstalled OS's that both think they're C:\ you will have to use some sort of boot manager. If you're happy to reinstall one or the other OS's you can use the built in XP boot manager. If you choose to reinstall XP then use your old drive as C:\ and it will set the dual boot up automatically. If your XP drive is FAT32 info on how to install 9x after XP can be found by following the '98 after XP' link on my page http://au.geocities.com/inquisitiveb/stuff.html Hope that helps Inquisitive

If you have 2 seperate drive with the full OS's on then then you can use your BIOS to boot from each drive seperately... IE set the boot device to HD0 to boot from one drive and set it to HD1 to boot from the other drive... The bios will make that the primary boot device and the OSon that drive will think that it is the only OS on the system.... this is the way I do it and it works really good becuase both of the OS's are seperate....

Thank you for the responses! To clarify, the second drive would have 98 already installed, and in fact I have two '98 drives. So, the total would be one XP drive, and two '98 drives. I don't want to do another install, so what rjs82vette said above sounds good, but is it practical to go to the bios each time and change the boot device? Is there a manager for that? Are you all sure that the drives will not be visible to each other? Will I be short of cables for other devices, such as CD player. Thanks again for all the help! Eddie

Why don't you use your second drive as a separate partition as drive D If you install first win98 at C and after that install XP on D cause XP recognise an existing OS and give you the choice to install on drive C or D. If you choose D XP will make a dual boot and give you a choice wich OS you want by starting up your comp, Win98 can't do that and that's why you have to install XP after Win98. Greetings ... Daniël...!!

System Commander by V-comm is a partition tool and boot manager. So is Partition Magic with Boot Magic included in it.