Two Win98 on two hard drives, on one PC

[NixOdd]

I want to install two parallel Win98 on two hard drives (don't ask me why ), but I can't get them both to work. When I install second Win98 on HDD2, it somehow mixes with the first one and doesn't want to work separately. And if I disconnect HDD1 the second hard disk becomes C: , so I still can't install Win98 on it, because it should be drive D: .
I have no problem with dual booting (I have a programm for it) - the only problem is to make these two Windows work separately and independent...

[rustygates]

You are lucky it doesn't work. If you could get it to work, the Registry would be so screwed up as to make the machine practically unusable. You can dual boot different systems, like Windows 98 on one, and Windows 2000 on the other. It is like marrying twin sisters. How the hell do you tell which one is which?

[NixOdd]

How about Win 98 with Win ME?

[DavidZzz]

Yeah, that sure will work, first intall win98 and then winme

[jtdoom]

lets assume

lets assume you want a drive for kids and one for you

lets assume you want that in one puter
wanna know what I think is the simplest solution?
a drive bay with swapable trays
iow, you swap the drives out

I don't really "know" if multiboot win98-winME works, but from what I seem to remember reading about it, I don't think so..

win98-win2000 does multiboot

yet, imho, it's kinda dangerous to data to set up multiboot systems.

[smurfy]

Hi NixOdd.
What program are you using for the boot manager.

The trick in getting Dual boots of identical O/S to work is hiding one from the other.
If you are using XOSL, I can step by step you through it.

[NixOdd]

Thanks. I've been talked out of installing two Win98 - now I think I better install Win98 with WinME. Hope there will be less problems here...

The program I use is Osl2000, but I tried XOSL as well.