Dual boot from 2 OS in 2 harddisk

[jims]

I have 2 harddisks installed, one with XP and one with ME.
I want my computer to let me choose which OS to boot in
the startup, is that I need to use any software to do so ??
I can now just choose to boot from which computer by
setting the boot priority from the BIOS and as a result
the drive letter specified for the 2 harddisk are
different in the 2 OS which make my file linkage in some
of the program like Access go wrong.
Can anybody help and teach me how and what to do or give
me any guidelines or reference site??

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You need a boot manager, you can't use ntldr (the WinXP native bootloader)
as both need to "see" themselves as C (due to the way they were installed).
To avoid using a boot manager, you would need to reinstall whichever system
is on the secondary cable or is in the slave position, then do a recovery
with the WinXP CD and rebuild the bootcfg files.

Boot Managers:

BootIT NG www.terabyteunlimited.com
Partition Magic www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic
Partition Commander http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html
Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"jims" > wrote in message
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> I have 2 harddisks installed, one with XP and one with ME.
> I want my computer to let me choose which OS to boot in
> the startup, is that I need to use any software to do so ??
> I can now just choose to boot from which computer by
> setting the boot priority from the BIOS and as a result
> the drive letter specified for the 2 harddisk are
> different in the 2 OS which make my file linkage in some
> of the program like Access go wrong.
> Can anybody help and teach me how and what to do or give
> me any guidelines or reference site??