Boot Loader

samdcook · January 2nd, 2003, 02:30 PM

Looking for smoe advice!

I'm using 9x and have 2 hard drives. Is there a boot loader that will enable me to switch between the two hard drives using 9x on both drives? I know that if I use WIn XP a boot loader is already there. I only have 9x available. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

mpc · January 2nd, 2003, 07:42 PM

You can use this:

http://www.xosl.org/

Germ · January 5th, 2003, 10:47 AM

I think PowerQuest Boot Magic will do what you want.

Creatures · January 5th, 2003, 11:01 AM

thanks for the link mpc but i think i stay at my lilo boot loader!

Germ: is powerquest boot magic for free??

Creatures

PresterJohn · January 5th, 2003, 12:06 PM

bootmagic is not free.

another commercial boot manager is system commander (www.v-com.com)...very powerful and also includes a partition manager utility (just as good as partition magic).

yclyde · January 5th, 2003, 12:13 PM

This one also works quite well:

http://www.acronis.com/products/osselector/

Excellent linux support as well.

iNeb · January 5th, 2003, 12:17 PM

I'm intrested also, my step father is building a new computer with me, but his old POS unit had a hard drive with all the files he needs for his company (The program file installed)

If he was to have WinXp installed, then his old POS hard drive secondary, could he use these programs to choose which one to boot up with?

Germ · January 5th, 2003, 01:04 PM

nope, boot magic is not free.

iNeb yep, that's the idea. Instead of the OS bootloader, the third party boot loader is presented and you choose which OS to boot.