Dual Hard Drive Boot Manager
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Does anyone know of some boot manager software that I can use for the following configuration:
- Hard Drive #1 - Windows XP Professional
- Hard Drive #2 - Windows 2000 Advanced Server :)
I have both drives in one computer and would like to have an option of which OS to load when I start up. I know there are boot managers out there to control this when two OS's are loaded to one hard drive with multiple partitions. These are going to be completely separate drives. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Nick Parker
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Does anyone know of some boot manager software that I can use for the following configuration:
- Hard Drive #1 - Windows XP Professional
- Hard Drive #2 - Windows 2000 Advanced Server :)
I have both drives in one computer and would like to have an option of which OS to load when I start up. I know there are boot managers out there to control this when two OS's are loaded to one hard drive with multiple partitions. These are going to be completely separate drives. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Nick Parker
No need to use third party software. Windows has a native support for dual booting between MS OS-es.. Just install Windows 2000 first and then install Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Changes should be made so as to choose what OS to load up. It's very easy to do it manually as well. All you need to do is modify boot.ini file. :) Thanks, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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No need to use third party software. Windows has a native support for dual booting between MS OS-es.. Just install Windows 2000 first and then install Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Changes should be made so as to choose what OS to load up. It's very easy to do it manually as well. All you need to do is modify boot.ini file. :) Thanks, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
Venet wrote: All you need to do is modify boot.ini file. I haven't checked Windows 2000 Advanced Server yet, but just did on Windows XP Professional and it does not have a boot.ini file. Nick Parker
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Venet wrote: All you need to do is modify boot.ini file. I haven't checked Windows 2000 Advanced Server yet, but just did on Windows XP Professional and it does not have a boot.ini file. Nick Parker
Right Click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Startup & Recovery. * There is a combo box displaying the current OSs on the system. From this page you can select the default and edit the boot.ini file. (If there is not one, it will create it for you) * This is on Win2K and WinXP only
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Right Click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Startup & Recovery. * There is a combo box displaying the current OSs on the system. From this page you can select the default and edit the boot.ini file. (If there is not one, it will create it for you) * This is on Win2K and WinXP only
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Hey so what if I'm a geek! Byte me!Thanks for the tip, my boot.ini file looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(1)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetectDo you know how it should look with Windows 2000 Advanced Server listed as an entirely separate drive within this file? Thanks again. Nick Parker
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Thanks for the tip, my boot.ini file looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(1)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetectDo you know how it should look with Windows 2000 Advanced Server listed as an entirely separate drive within this file? Thanks again. Nick Parker
Contents of boot.ini should be changed automatically when installing another microsoft OS, so you shouldn't really need to worry about it. But it should look something like this: [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect You can change it to say anything you want though. There is another way to make a machine dual boot, by copying first 512 bits (boot sector) of the harddisk/partition that has Win2k AS, but that's a bit complicated really. :) Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)