From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 20:36:03 EST
There's an easy way to accomplish what you want. Somebody may have suggested
this already (I get the daily digest of the ThinkPad list), but in case they
haven't...
Get System Commander and install it onto your main hard drive. Let it set up
a boot menu for your NT4 on the main drive and the NT5 (or other OS) on the
second drive. Go into System Commander's setup and edit the "local options"
for the NT5 boot. There is a section there where you can tell it to show or
hide the other partitions when that OS boots. Make sure this is set to HIDE
the partition on the main hard drive. Then you can boot NT5 and it won't see
the main partition at all.
You may need a FAT partition on the main drive to install System Commander
onto. If you've got a hibernate partition with a megabyte free, that should
do.
System Commander is at www.v-com.com.
-Mike
http://www.geary.com
mailto:mg_at_mg.to
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> I have a 770 (9548-30U) that has a 4.0GB main hard drive running NT4. I
> also have several additional hard drives that I use in the UltraBay with
> the adapter. With the BIOS startup options I can easily choose to boot
> from the 2nd HD and therefore launch another O/S. That is, until I
> encountered NT 5.0 Beta2. Since my main HD is NTFS4, the NT 5 beta,
> when booted, did a 'seek and destroy' and converted the NTFS4 partition
> to NTFS5. For any of you who don't know, NTFS5 and NTFS4 are NOT
> compatible. Hence, my main O/S wouldn't boot. I got my system
> recovered after several hours of copying files and reformatting.
>
> What this means is that I can't boot my NT5 HD without incapacitating my
> NT4 installation. If I could somehow remove the main HD and boot to the
> 2nd drive then there would be no chance that NT5 would destroy my NT4
> partition. Does anyone know how to set up the 770 to boot the 2nd HD
> WITHOUT the primary HD installed? When I try this I get an IBM error
> screen immediately and it does not boot. Is there another BIOS option I
> don't know about that tells the system not to look for the primary HD?
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