How do I tripple boot with 2 harddisks?

I'm not sure how to do a triple boot, but I can imagine that the time you've wasted trying to figure it out would be better solved by just clean installing Windows 2000. And yeah, it would be better this way so the hardware will be best detected.

Hopefully someone can jump in and correct me...

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Reinstall 2000. If you attempt to use the install already exisiting on th drive from another system the user profiles and hardware profiles will not match your current system.

I always hear that a harddrive with an existing OS from one computer may not work if transplanted to another computer with different hardware. My experience has been that the OS boots, though the hardware (if the OS doesn't have drivers for them) will not be installed. A simple driver install (and driver uninstall for the ghost hardware) should do the trick. You should also update the chipset drivers, if the mother board is different.

Have you tried hitting the "esc" key while booting up? If you do this, you will be prompted to select which drive to boot from; the winxp/98 (dual boot) or the w2k (single drive). This is simpler than attempting to do a "true" triple boot. Also, it might be a good idea to select the default boot drive in the BIOS setup for the most frequently booted drive, so you don't have to always hit escape.

I, at one point, had winxp/98 (dual boot) and a win98 (single drive) "triple" boot. Since the w2k is a separate drive, this is the simplest way to go. However, all my drives were masters (I have four ide channels). Though, I don't think that the master/slave setting should affect the "bootableness" of a drive, this could be a concern. If you have another IDE channel free, try it there. Also, you may want to put the w2k as the master to whatever drive you may have on that IDE channel.

I don't know if it's possible to do a "true" triple boot, and don't think it's worth the trouble, unless you happen to know.

Quality is better than name brand, even regarding beloved AMD.

I give up. If I connect the win2000 harddisk by itself, it tells me the ntoskrnl.exe could not be found and a bunch of other files. When I put it back to its original PC, it boots fine.

XMAN

why don't you format (or completely erase) the disk first, then put it in the target computer as the only disk, then install w2k. After that, attach your other dual boot disks and do what I suggested.

Quality is better than name brand, even regarding beloved AMD.