Re: Removing Dual Booting and keeping both O/Ss

Answers Below:

"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
scsi syntax is used to indicate that Windows 2000 will load a boot device
driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Normally not
required.

OK - I thought W2k may need the ATA100 drivers so as to be able to access
the ATA100 controller and drives. (It asks for, and needs them if I attempt
to do a repair from the Win2K CD).

Are you drive swapping? If so why?

No, not swapping drives?? - They stay where they are, but I have made a
small change: WinME boot still on IDE controller primary and Win2K (not yet
booting!) now on ATA100 primary and a Data drive still on ATA primary slave.
WinMe now seems to be disk 0, Win2K Disk1 and Data Disk2.

GM




"George" wrote:
| Thanks Dave,
|
| WinMe seems straight forward, but I think I will backup Win2K and work
on
it
| first so I know it will work.
|
| WinMe drive does have boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos in
the
| root directory, but not pagefile.sys or ntbootdd.sys .
|
| On the Win2K drive, there are none of these files (even when I show all
| files) except for pagefile.sys - Presumably the dual boot uses the ones
on
| the WinMe drive?
|
| I made a boot floppy that boots W2K. I copied boot.ini, ntldr,
ntdetect.com
| to it from the WinMe boot drive and I added the ATA100 driver which I
| renamed ntbootdd.sys (not sure if I needed to do this). Can I copy the
same
| files to the Win2K drive and have it boot directly without need for the
| floppy?
|
| The WinMe drive is on IDE controller, but Win2K is on ATA100 controller.
Do
| I need to change multi( ) to scsi( ) if I want to boot directly?
|
| Thanks
|
| GM




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