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Answer» As I mentioned in another post about coyping a hard drive from an older computer a problem has arose. I thought there would be options as to which operating system I could boot up from either XP or 98SE. It doesn't show an option in the start-up and recovery section of the system nor when booting up and clicking F8 did it either. I was wanting to look at the programs listed to see which software discs to include if I sold the computer. I'll google around while waiting for someone to respond.No idea what you did or how you did it. Why not explain the whole story?I think you thought that by making a copy of the Disk running 98SE, that would give you the optoin of a dual boot OS. That what you mean?. As the mod has said, can you elaborate on what you mean. Copy overwrites copy. Did you ghost the old drive or just copy some app files or SOMETHING like that?? Quote from: Tim_Cdy on August 15, 2010, 10:16:36 AM I think you thought that by making a copy of the Disk running 98SE, that would give you the optoin of a dual boot OS. That what you mean?. As the mod has said, can you elaborate on what you mean. Copy overwrites copy. Did you ghost the old drive or just copy some app files or something like that?? Thanks for the responses and the answer is no to question by Tim_Cdy and to the other question of Allan's, I hooked a hard drive from my old computer which has 98SE to my current computer which has XP. They're still in the same tower and hooked together on the same ribbon like good little hard drives should be. I'm wanting to boot up on the 98SE drive which wasn't as easy as I thought it should be.What do you think of this article? http://www.pcworld.com/article/141614/faq_secrets_to_running_multiple_operating_systems.html Quote from: The Bubba on August 15, 2010, 09:42:38 AM ... I thought there would be options as to which operating system I could boot up from either XP or 98SE. It doesn't show an option in the start-up and recovery section of the system nor when booting up and clicking F8 did it either. I was wanting to look at the programs listed to see which software discs to include if I sold the computer...You have the option in the BIOS to change the boot order, with no danger of messing up the WinXP install. Takes a bit longer (maybe 10-20sec) than a boot loader.you can't just add a new drive with an OS and expect the system to see it. The bootloader doesn't know it exists.You guys argue it out and LET me know what's right, I can't find anything tangible googling. Quote from: The Bubba on August 15, 2010, 01:06:18 PM You guys argue it out and let me know what's right, I can't find anything tangible googling.I beg your pardon? Quote from: The Bubba on August 15, 2010, 01:06:18 PM ...I can't find anything tangible googling.Maybe too much BEER? (LOL) Free Boot Managers and Multi-Boot LoadersCC is right. either perform a "repair" install on the XP install (I'm not sure, but I think that might recreate the boot.ini file) edit the boot.ini manually (probably not a good idea unless your familiar with it) or, just stick with the boot option in the BIOS, which usually allows you to reorder which hard drive has "priority" to boot. There is no "argument" here. Allan and CC do not raise points of contention against each other at all. as Allan states, adding a hard drive with an OS to another computer with an OS already installed doesn't magically make the pre-existing OS recognize and allow for booting to that drive. One would need to make changes to allow for that provision (the aforementioned boot.ini file, for NT/XP). The only way to go about this without modifying boot.ini would be to use the BIOS boot options to switch the boot from one drive to the other. Quote from: The Bubba on August 15, 2010, 11:59:22 AM What do you think of this article?Good article but it does not pertain to your situation. The article explains how to create a dual-boot configuration by *installing* two OS on a computer. You did not do that. You simply transferred a hard drive with Win 98SE from an older computer to a newer computer. You did not install Win 98SE in the new computer. Do you understand that? If you succeeded in booting from Win 98SE, do you think the computer would boot right up without problems? Not very likely. Win 98SE does not have the proper device drivers for the new computer because Win 98SE was installed on a different computer. Quote from: soybean on August 15, 2010, 01:33:16 PM Good article but it does not pertain to your situation. The article explains how to create a dual-boot configuration by *installing* two OS on a computer. You did not do that. You simply transferred a hard drive with Win 98SE from an older computer to a newer computer. You did not install Win 98SE in the new computer. Do you understand that? Actually, it's probably that 98SE will start up fine, ignoring the missing drivers. 9x is a lot more tolerant of missing drivers. I've transferred boot drives among machines on quite a few occasions; aside from finding some new devices (unknown and otherwise) and possibly reverting to good old 800x600 with 16 colours, It usually went well. This is of course as opposed to XP, which sometimes works but usually doesn't boot, or has any number of issues.This seems to be a very good tutorial on editing the boot.ini for multi-booting. Lots of screen shots to illustrate. How to Use and Edit Boot.ini in Windows XP Note: if you make any mistake at all, WinXP may not boot. You can still go into the BIOS and change the boot order to boot Win98, but it won't have the capability of editing the WinXP boot.ini, unless the WinXP is FAT32 and not NTFS.First of all, thanks for all the responses. I'm thinking now that the best course of action would be to just put the hard drive back in it's original tower, check it out and remove all personal data. |
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