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Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by z4u, 2005/12/04.

  1. 2005/12/04
    z4u

    z4u Inactive Thread Starter

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    guys i want to use my old hard disk in my computer which has already 40 gb hard disk and windows xp and in old hard disk i will install win98.
    so can i plug 2 hard disk and how can assign for primary and secondary hard drive is it possible to change operating system from one hard disk to another hard disk ............:confused: :confused: :confused:
     
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    PeteC

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    There is no problem in installing your old hard drive as a slave - set the jumper to the slave position and connect to the same IDE cable as your existing drive. Master should be at the end of the cable.

    However, to install Win 98 on a setup which already has XP installed is very difficult and full of problems. Your best bet is to install the old hard disk as slave and copy all your data to it. Then format the drive which has XP on it and install Win 98. Then install XP either to a partition on the first (Win 98) drive or to the second hard drive where it would be best to make a partition too, to keep your data separate. Windows will write the boot.ini file and on boot up you will be presented with a list of operating systems to boot from - in your case Win 98 or XP.

    If you want Win 98 to see any data which may be on the XP partition/drive do not format the XP partition/drive NTFS - choose FAT32. You will need to reinstall your programs twice - to XP and to 98, assuming they are compatible.
     
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    McTavish

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    As Pete says there are problems with your idea, especially if you use the MS way of setting up a dual boot. For one thing 98 will not run from a slave hard drive and so will have to be on the master. The other is that you will have to reinstall XP after you have installed 98. (There is a way to do it without reinstalling XP but it requires copying boot sectors and modifying and moving system files).

    Your easiest solution would be to remove your current XP hard drive and set the 40gig as master and install Win98 to it. Then put the XP drive back as master and the 98 one as slave and then use a third party bootmanager that is able to boot Win98 from a second hard drive.
     
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    TopFarmer

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    as posted by McTavish use of a third party boot manager is by far the easyest way. Depending on boot manager used will change the way you need to proceed along with if the XP hdd is NTFS or FAT32. May not need to swap hdd's around.

    One eash free boot manager is GAG , no need for hdd swaping.
    http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2588.html

    others from www.simtel.net (have not used)
    bootm020
    mstbt400

    all 3 will tell you how to install 2nd OS's, and there are many more managers.
     
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    z4u

    z4u Inactive Thread Starter

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    k finally i have install both hard drive but now i want to make a dual bootup mean during start up windws xp from 40gb hard disk and windows 2000 from 2gb hard disk i can run one by one hard disk from changing setting of cmos bootup.
    how can i make it dual from seperate hard drive .
     
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    McTavish

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    You could probably use the Windows dual boot method by adding a line for 2K to the boot.ini file in XP. The XP hard drive would have to be the first boot device in the bios. I’ve never actually tried this so can’t say for sure it would work ok. It should, but there might be a problem if both XP and 2K have currently assigned themselves as the C: drive. The MS bootloader (the ntloader) usually needs the OSes to have different drive letters. Perhaps someone else here may know if it would work and if 2K would successfully assign a different letter to XP, which would be the ‘Boot’ drive in 2K.

    What would work for sure is a third party bootmanager. The free GAG that TopFarmer linked to above is excellent and would do the job, but any that is capable of ‘drive swapping’ (that’s being able to emulate the bios change you are currently doing to boot the second hard drive) would do the job. Many bootmanagers can boot Win9x from a second hard drive, but there are only a few that can boot WinNT.

    XOSL is free and good, but needs it’s own partition. http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org
    OSL2000 is the best I’ve used www.osloader.com
    Bootus is also top notch www.boot-us.com

    These are also competent but not my favourites
    www.star-tools.com/bootstar/english
    http://symon.ru/usr/eng/about.shtml

    I believe this one can do it but I’ve never tried it.
    www.v-com.com/product/System_Commander_Home.html
     
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