Malcom - I was looking for just this very functionality myself about 2 months ago and found the solution to be a tiny and affordable app called osloader 2000. http://www.osloader.com/
This awesome little tool allows you to boot to any partition via a simple dos like boot menu that appears when you boot. What's unique about it though is that it can "hide" the other partitions, thus no matter which partition you select, it always appears to windows as drive c:, because it's the only partition that is not hidden. You can override the behavior as you see fit if you wanted to share a common data partition amonst the various windows installs. Check it out. It's been a life saver for me. PS - I am a huge fan of VMWARE, but I use this solution in cases where I want to have 3D Graphics acceleration, which no virtual software handles properly or supports at this time. -Steve At 06:45 AM 1/17/2008, you wrote: >I have a situation where I need to install multiple Windows OS's on a >single drive and choose which partition to boot. VMWare is not an option >because my customer considers it an unapproved technology. > >Is it possible to partition a hard drive into multiple partitions so as >each partition looks like a drive C: to its OS? Right now, because of >the way I partitioned my drive, each of my partitions has a unique >incrementing drive letter (D:, E:, F:, etc). > >Do I need to use a 3rd party boot manager like Partition Magic to do >this or can I do this out-of-the-box? > >Thanks! >Malcolm > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
