depends on how big HD1 is, I just setup a dual boot with 2 drives in it, one is used for the O.S. and the other just for audio. I split the first drive (O.S. drive) into 2 partitions....each one being 20 gigs, installed the appropriate O.S. in each....edited up the boot.ini and all was happy.

thanks for the reply.

HD1 is 40 gigs, so it should be big enough for both sets of OS's and apps.

Any disadvantage to having them both on one drive.

thanks-
jpmanis

Yes. That drive goes and you lose the ability to boot up. I got on one of DAWS(old Anus) 2 os installs on seperate drives. One on a raid array and the other on an IDE channel. :c:

Cheers

when I setup a drive I always leave about 2 gigs un partitioned....that way if your O.S. gets corrupt you have some space on the drive for a fresh O.S. install to get that drive up and running. If the drive itself crashes well....you have bigger problems to address, hope ya backed up :)

Ya know...I've always disconnected those friggen fans from the bays as indeed they are too loud for my taste as well.
If you have good ventilation running in the system you really don't need them.
Drive bays, depending on what make you get are usually efficient enough with air space to provide adequate room for air to flow through without trapping heat inside of it.
I personally like doing swappable drives for each OS.

I've never been a fan of dual booting as one OS will always see the other one.
Daniel Keller, former Tascam 428 guru, and I have always agreed on this one!

Cheers
Opus

Hi

I'm no expert like Opus, but I'm currently working with a dual boot configuration on the same OS, and everything is working OK: I have the dual boot system set up so that I can have Win98SE on partition number one (for Pro Tools LE 5.1.0) and Win XP Pro on the other (for Pro Tools LE 5.3.1) ; I don't know, but so far I havent had any issues with OSs conflicting with each other, as 98 doesn't even know of XP existance, and XP treats the 98 partition just like a normal HD. Untill all apps and plugins have been updated (in the Pro Tools land) for XP I'll keep it this way.

P.S. : To Scenaria, what did you edited in the boot.ini ? is it something required to make the system work even beter? I didn't do anything, but I'd like to know.

Thanx

L.G.

heh I forgot about this thread...

I only edited the boot.ini for my partition names so that I could identify them easier. mostly because I had two copies of XP installed and its difficult to see which one is which as they are both called the same in the boot manager. (idiot proof for an idiot like me :)

Bootstar can completely hide OS's including XP, it's a bit fiddly to setup though as the manual is really badly translated.

If you use a 98 admin partition you don't even have to install anything just copy the dos version files to the drive.

Bootmagic 8 says it can do this but can't.

I'm using a triple boot win98se/xp/xp setup you know it's working properly when the xp setup states unknown for the other already installed OS's and each partition has a completely different pagefile.

Cheers, Trace.