Bastiaan, As L.D. said, some people like Boot Magic (from PowerQuest) and others like System Commander (from V-Systems), but as long as any of them work properly, they should permit multiple operating systems on a HD. I believe that at one time I saw multi-os programs available on Simtel.
Does your "Partition Resizer" or Smart Boot Manager permit you to hide or change the active partition? I think that this is one of the primary conditions for having multiple operating systems on your HD. You can have only one active primary partition at a time. I used System Commander on my laptop HD and had both Windoze and DOS partitions. I had a DR-DOS primary partition with drive C: and an extended DOS partition with logical drives D: thru K:. Windoze had only a primary partition with drive C:. What I didn't like was that Windoze could read from and write to the logical DR-DOS drives and put hidden/read only/system files on those drives. With the price of HD's coming down (I have purchased a 100GB HD for less than US$1 a GB), I have installed HD's on trays and put cradles in my desktop machines. Windoze is on its own HD and can muck it up all it wants without affecting my other OSes. HTH Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona L.D. and Bastiaan wrote: . > Bastiaan, . > You need a separate type of program to have two "primary" partitions on . > a single HDD. Linux has this ability IIRC. _Partition_Magic_ comes . > with a separate program that does what's needed. _System_Commander_ . > also does this (I had a bad experience with it, but others like it). . > What those programs do is rewrite the MBR and provide an interface so . > you can make your selection of which "primary" partition you want. . > Before trying any of those programs, make a 'rescue' diskette so you can . > restore your MBR to original if something goes wrong [that's what saved . > me when I found out the hard way that System Commander had a bad . > diskette]. . > I'm pretty sure that you can find some programs to back-up your Master . > Boot Record (MBR) on simtel or other web places. There may also be some . > programs out there in free/shareware land that allow you to rewrite MBR . > for more than one primary partition. . > l.d. . > ==== . > On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:58:19 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > Hi List > I have two HD's in my computer and as an experiment I tried to make an > extra partition on HD1 (D:\). > With "Partition Resizer" this was done. A second partition was created > on HD1... but entry was denied to this partition. > Well they say you first have to format the new partition so this has > been done and now acces was gained to the new partition. > But the new partition is a logical partition so no operating system can > be installed there. > How to make a primairy partition of the newly created logical one? > I tried FDISK but that does not work... FDISK stated that there is > already a primairy partition on HD1 and refuses to make another one. > If I am well informed up to four primairy partitions are possible on a > HD. > Smart Boot Manager is installed and working fine.. the two HD's can be > swapped if necessary. > But how to make more than one primairy partition on a HD ??? > Hope anyone of you has a smart idea about this. > Regards, Bastiaan
