Installing 2 operating systems

[Nameless]

On my Computer I have two hard drives, one is set as
cable select while the other is set as a slave.
On each drive I have an operating system. On the master
Which is in ntfs format I have windows Xp Professional,
while on the other drive the slave which is in fat 32
format I have windows 98.
In order to use Win 98 or Win Xp operating system I have
to enter system bios and choose which drive should be
used as boot device first.
I tried multiple solutions in-order to be presented with
a choice of operating systems at startup but i didn't
succeed. When I used the recovery console to scan for
operating systems on all drives it identified only Xp.
I installed windows xp last in-order to identify the
other operating system but to no avail.
May someone help me edit the startup options file
manually in a way that I can choose my os without
entering the bios menu. Or prvide me with any other means
in-order to get that selective menu at startup.

[Danny Blue]

Have you created/edited your BOOT.INI file? If you have both devices on one
cable why aren't you using cable select for both?

"Nameless" > wrote in message
...
> On my Computer I have two hard drives, one is set as
> cable select while the other is set as a slave.
> On each drive I have an operating system. On the master
> Which is in ntfs format I have windows Xp Professional,
> while on the other drive the slave which is in fat 32
> format I have windows 98.
> In order to use Win 98 or Win Xp operating system I have
> to enter system bios and choose which drive should be
> used as boot device first.
> I tried multiple solutions in-order to be presented with
> a choice of operating systems at startup but i didn't
> succeed. When I used the recovery console to scan for
> operating systems on all drives it identified only Xp.
> I installed windows xp last in-order to identify the
> other operating system but to no avail.
> May someone help me edit the startup options file
> manually in a way that I can choose my os without
> entering the bios menu. Or prvide me with any other means
> in-order to get that selective menu at startup.

[Danny Blue]

Have you created/edited your BOOT.INI file? If you have both devices on one
cable why aren't you using cable select for both?

"Nameless" > wrote in message
...
> On my Computer I have two hard drives, one is set as
> cable select while the other is set as a slave.
> On each drive I have an operating system. On the master
> Which is in ntfs format I have windows Xp Professional,
> while on the other drive the slave which is in fat 32
> format I have windows 98.
> In order to use Win 98 or Win Xp operating system I have
> to enter system bios and choose which drive should be
> used as boot device first.
> I tried multiple solutions in-order to be presented with
> a choice of operating systems at startup but i didn't
> succeed. When I used the recovery console to scan for
> operating systems on all drives it identified only Xp.
> I installed windows xp last in-order to identify the
> other operating system but to no avail.
> May someone help me edit the startup options file
> manually in a way that I can choose my os without
> entering the bios menu. Or prvide me with any other means
> in-order to get that selective menu at startup.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

What you're trying to accomplish can't be done with the setup you describe.
Use a 3rd party boot manager, like BootIt Next Generation, www.bootitng.com.
It will work with the XP and 98 installs. The reason that XP isn't seeing
the 98 install is that BOOTSECT.DOS is not present on the XP drive. This is
what XP would use to determine where the boot files for 98 are, and where 98
is actually installed. And you can't put the 98 boot files on the NTFS
partition. Well, you can, but they'll fail to load since they know nothing
about NTFS.

--
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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
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"Nameless" > wrote in message
...
> On my Computer I have two hard drives, one is set as
> cable select while the other is set as a slave.
> On each drive I have an operating system. On the master
> Which is in ntfs format I have windows Xp Professional,
> while on the other drive the slave which is in fat 32
> format I have windows 98.
> In order to use Win 98 or Win Xp operating system I have
> to enter system bios and choose which drive should be
> used as boot device first.
> I tried multiple solutions in-order to be presented with
> a choice of operating systems at startup but i didn't
> succeed. When I used the recovery console to scan for
> operating systems on all drives it identified only Xp.
> I installed windows xp last in-order to identify the
> other operating system but to no avail.
> May someone help me edit the startup options file
> manually in a way that I can choose my os without
> entering the bios menu. Or prvide me with any other means
> in-order to get that selective menu at startup.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

What you're trying to accomplish can't be done with the setup you describe.
Use a 3rd party boot manager, like BootIt Next Generation, www.bootitng.com.
It will work with the XP and 98 installs. The reason that XP isn't seeing
the 98 install is that BOOTSECT.DOS is not present on the XP drive. This is
what XP would use to determine where the boot files for 98 are, and where 98
is actually installed. And you can't put the 98 boot files on the NTFS
partition. Well, you can, but they'll fail to load since they know nothing
about NTFS.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Associate Expert
ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
--------------------------------
Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

"Nameless" > wrote in message
...
> On my Computer I have two hard drives, one is set as
> cable select while the other is set as a slave.
> On each drive I have an operating system. On the master
> Which is in ntfs format I have windows Xp Professional,
> while on the other drive the slave which is in fat 32
> format I have windows 98.
> In order to use Win 98 or Win Xp operating system I have
> to enter system bios and choose which drive should be
> used as boot device first.
> I tried multiple solutions in-order to be presented with
> a choice of operating systems at startup but i didn't
> succeed. When I used the recovery console to scan for
> operating systems on all drives it identified only Xp.
> I installed windows xp last in-order to identify the
> other operating system but to no avail.
> May someone help me edit the startup options file
> manually in a way that I can choose my os without
> entering the bios menu. Or prvide me with any other means
> in-order to get that selective menu at startup.

[AC]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:20:10 -0700, "Nameless" >
wrote:

>On my Computer I have two hard drives, one is set as
>cable select while the other is set as a slave.
>On each drive I have an operating system. On the master
>Which is in ntfs format I have windows Xp Professional,
>while on the other drive the slave which is in fat 32
>format I have windows 98.
>In order to use Win 98 or Win Xp operating system I have
>to enter system bios and choose which drive should be
>used as boot device first.
>I tried multiple solutions in-order to be presented with
>a choice of operating systems at startup but i didn't
>succeed. When I used the recovery console to scan for
>operating systems on all drives it identified only Xp.
>I installed windows xp last in-order to identify the
>other operating system but to no avail.
>May someone help me edit the startup options file
>manually in a way that I can choose my os without
>entering the bios menu. Or prvide me with any other means
>in-order to get that selective menu at startup.

Create a small FAT16 primary partition in your master, reinstall XP.

AC