A question for you computer techies
 

I have two drives C-E. I want to be able to boot into either drive at will. Can this be as simple as installing an operating system on the second drive and using a floppy to boot into it? If not does anyone have a link for a tutorial on how to accomplish this?

Why use a floppy disk? Just use a boot loader.

I just did some searches and learned that having two bootable drives can cause problems...any input about this?

What 2 OS's do you want to run?
With Windows and Linux use the built in LILO.
With 2 versions of Windows it can be done in the boot.ini or with a third party sofware like bootmagic.

<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">Grub</a.
freeware bootloader

Windows 2000 Pro.

you don't need any bootloader if you are installing to win os just set up the two partitions as primary partitions when you format them and install both os' on each partition and when you boot you would be given a choice i am currently running win xp and win 2003 on my laptop on same disk but two partition and it works fine

For security reasons, a floppy is the way to go. There are several ways to make a multi OS bootable floppy. Google should do the trick.

Well...I don't want two operating systems on the same drive but on two separate drives...that I can boot to at will...but thanks for the input.

I have 3 XP installs in 2 hard drives on my computer. XP sets up the boot.ini file for you so you don't have to use diskettes(are those still around?), and if you want to change the boot file just edit it with notepad.

theking his the theory si the same i ran 3 os on 2 hds and had 0 probs it is real nice if one hd crashes ya can boot to other and save whateve rya need before formattin to fix other hd if format is required :)

Search Newegg.. i've seen really cheap hardware that is for this purpose exactly.. quick search I found this:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...witch&d epa=1

http://www.nicklock.com/

It's not the one I had in mind but if you search around you'll find more..

Boot loader, the best way to go! :)

jDoG

I got win 98 on my c drive and boot to that for games and shit

i got win 2000 pro on drive d for business shit.

If you 2 versions of 2000 pro - no problems

Same thing as this:
It will just be 2 disks instead of 2 partions. The second intall will modify the boot.ini file for you.