XPpro Hda1 and MS-Dos Hda2 dule boot?

BigBoy

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Ok guys i got one for ya

I have been trawling the Microsoft support pages all day trying to solve this one.

I have 2 hard drives one with windows XP (Primary Master) and one with MS-Dos (Primary Slave).

Now my problem is i want to dule boot xp and Dos so i can play all my old games (This is an old system and dos is already playing the games with sound n stuff). Now my problem is that the Os's were installed separatly so they dont realy know that each other exist. winXP can see the dos drive and access it but only as a slave disk.

What I want to do is boot either disk without having to disconnect them and change jumper settings and so on. I know i need to build a bootsect.dos for the dos boot sector so MS-Dos will load from the win XP boot menu, only i havent any idea how to make this file and then set it up.

If some one out there knows a way of doing it them please please help.

Thanks in Advance
Bigboy
 
Partition Magic will also allow you to create a boot loader I believe. You could also write one yourself in XP but I haven't a clue how you go about it!
 
maybe your mobo bios supports booting from the other disk? mine does.... :p

i press f8 as my bios screen flashes up and i choose which hard disk i want to boot from. :cool:
 
NathanE said:
Personally I'd download a free copy of VMware or Virtual PC and install DOS on that :)
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It would but some of the games dont run properly in vmware i have tryed. :(

Chaos said:
Try gag, pretty cool boot manager.
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That sorted me mate nice little boot loader :)
 
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