Duel Booting

**BlueIce** · October 1st, 2005, 11:38 AM

I did do a search for this but i could only seem to find answers to this for different op systems.

this might seem nuts but i have a good reason for this

ok i have 2 H/Drives both runing win2k can i put both H/Drives in to one machine and from start up choose to boot from disc 1 or disc 2 i think there is a way to config the boot.ini file for this but i am not sure how to do this.
or if someone out there has a better way to achive this i would love to know.

Thanx
Ice

**EXreaction** · October 1st, 2005, 11:46 AM

Ya, it will work if you use two of the same OS's...you might have to name them different in the boot.ini though...that is...if it only boots to one...

**BlueIce** · October 1st, 2005, 12:09 PM

so my boot.ini looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect

am i right that to get the above to work change it to this
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
default=multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect

**micfau1091** · October 2nd, 2005, 02:14 AM

looks good, but try this

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
default=multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Advanced Server [Drive One]" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Advanced Server [Drive Two]" /fastdetect

The same name for each may cause a couple probs...just a thought

.

**cmptrgydv** · October 2nd, 2005, 03:33 AM

Put your win2000 cd in and start install,
Start recovery council when it asks you to,
Once in recovery council, type (bootcfg \list)
It should list both os’s then type (bootcfg \rebuild)
And it will make your boot ini dual boot

**BlueIce** · October 2nd, 2005, 11:07 PM

I will try both ...MMM !

**Ol'Tunzafun** · October 3rd, 2005, 12:56 AM

BOOTCFG would work great but it is only available in Windows XP and can only be run from the Recovery Console.
You might try a boot manager. There are a few free ones.
http://btmgr.webframe.org/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...sk/GAG-d.shtml