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- Get a copy of the XOSL boot manager. It's free.
- Install it in your Win98 partition.
- Add WinXP and Win98 to the XOSL menu.
- Instruct XOSL to swap disks when booting into Win98.
When installing XOSL, make sure to install it in your existing
Win98 partition. Do not allow it to install itself in a dedicated
partition (since you don't have one, it would erase one of the
existing partitions!).
"Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:35e101c4aadf$71b717b0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> C Drive has Xp and is NTFS, D Drive the slave is Fat32.
> It doesn't matter t me which drive is the slave or master
> and since XP is new I can always reformat either NTFS or
> Fast32 whichever I need to do and reinstall everything.
> If I pull out one drive I can get Win98 to run
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >"Mark" <MarkM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:200201c4aa4b$af7b77b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have two harddrives. "C" drive has XP and "D" has
> >> Win98 one set up as a master and the other a slave. Is
> >> there a way to set it up to give me a choice of which
> >> drive to boot to? Some of my programs, which are old
> >> will not run on XP so instead of me having to take the
> >> cover off the PC and switch the drives around I thought
> >> there may be an easier way.
> >>
> >> Help.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >
> >Yes, this can easily be done but you need to supply
> further
> >details:
> >- Is drive C: a FAT or an NTFS volume?
> >- If you remove the WinXP drive and make the Win98
> > the master, does Win98 run?
> >
> >
> >.
> >