DUAL BOOT???

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I am upgrading a machine that has two ATA drives, Master and Slave. The
mobo bios allows for alternate boot activated by using the ESC key after
RAM check.
Now if I do a diskcopy from C to D (I will be installing Win XP on C as my
primary OS) will the discopy make the D drive fully bootable into the older
Windows 98SE using an alternate boot???
NOte that I will be doing a clean install of XP onto C.
thanks in advance
dg

 

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"davegood" <amdbny.slqrifd@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I am upgrading a machine that has two ATA drives, Master and Slave. The
> mobo bios allows for alternate boot activated by using the ESC key after
> RAM check.
> Now if I do a diskcopy from C to D (I will be installing Win XP on C as my
> primary OS) will the discopy make the D drive fully bootable into the
older
> Windows 98SE using an alternate boot???
> NOte that I will be doing a clean install of XP onto C.
> thanks in advance
> dg

XXCOPY is a free command line utility that will clone bootable W98 drives

http://www.xxcopy.com

 

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"davegood" <amdbny.slqrifd@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Xns94F9149EA74DFamd@130.81.64.196...
> I am upgrading a machine that has two ATA drives, Master and Slave. The
> mobo bios allows for alternate boot activated by using the ESC key after
> RAM check.
> Now if I do a diskcopy from C to D (I will be installing Win XP on C as my
> primary OS) will the discopy make the D drive fully bootable into the
older
> Windows 98SE using an alternate boot???
> NOte that I will be doing a clean install of XP onto C.
> thanks in advance
> dg
I use two hard drives in this fashion - my Biostar mobo allows you to choose
which drive to boot from by pressing F9 buring POST. It will work, but you
need to clone you current C drive over to yourD drive - I don't think
diskcopy would work. I have always used Norton Ghost in DOS to clone drives,
but others swear by Achronis TrueImage which I beleive you can use in
Windows. You probably have Ghost lying around somewhere - it almost always
comes free on motherboard driver disks...
Graham