Software booting a drive

[~J~]

Does anyone know if there's a piece of software that's similar to Virtual PC (in that it runs an OS), but allows me to run the OS from a fixed drive within a window?

What I mean is, I have 2 drives on my machine here, and rather than having to turn off the machine and select a different OS at boot-time, I can run the second drive within an emulated environment?
Make sense? Any software do this?

 

[tripitaka]

Pretty unlikely, as most hardware on a virtual machine is emulated, so there would be a world of driver problems when the OS on the HDD didn't find the hardware it was expecting.

 

[~J~]

Pretty unlikely, as most hardware on a virtual machine is emulated, so there would be a world of driver problems when the OS on the HDD didn't find the hardware it was expecting.

Yeah good point. I'm sure I'd read it somewhere (might have dreamt it though! )

Thanks anyway.