Probably some "strange XP thing" that won't allow it. At least by no conventional means. -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- Clint: Right now I only have two physical hard drives connected in cable select. By going into set up, I can pick which one I want to boot from. That gives me Win 98 SE and Win XP Pro. I can acess the Win XP boot drive from Win 98 but not the other way around. Wally On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:23:26 -0600 "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" > writes: > Yeah I forgot to mention that too.....that bootable drive > that > I could not access in XP also showed under XP's Disk > Management > area. I don't understand why it would do that. Can you > access > a 2nd boot drive in 98? > -Clint > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Clint: > Your point about the bootable drive is well taken. > I just checked and with WIN XP on a 2Gb drive > formatted in FAT 16, the other Hard drive > (FAT 32 , Win 98 SE) which is bootable does not > show under windows explorer. However it shows > as a drive in good condition under the disk > management.program of WIN XP. > I just cannot access any of the files on the drive.. > > Wally > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:50:08 -0600 > "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" > <> writes: > > FWIW, on XP, when I've had two HD's hooked up and BOTH of > > them > > were bootable with XP on them, I could not see the other > > non-booted drive in Windows. It would seem it has a > > problem > > seeing a bootable drive when it's not the one being booted. > > I > > can't remember now if both were NTFS or if one was FAT32. > > > > It shouldn't matter in DOS. > > -Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
