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EZ-BIOS?

Post by Me » Wed, 03 Apr 2002 05:48:18



Ok heres the deal, I have two hard drives. One is a Quantum Fireball(cotains
bootable OSes) the other is a Maxtor(has music only on it). I want to have
two partions on my Quantum Fireball. One for Windows, one for FreeBSD. The
Catch... I have my Maxtor Drive filled with music. The Problem is that In
order to access the drive a Boot Bios program(EZ-BIOS) needs to start the
hard-drive up. I know Unix is not supported for EZ-BIOS. I only need the
Maxtor drive  for windows. Now is there a way I can leave my EZ-BIOS on so
that I normally boot into windows with the Maxtor drive enabled, but create
a boot disk with a manager that lets me choose which OS to load via floppy?
You catch my drift? Or is there a boot manager that will let me choose OS
and if I would choose Windows it would let me boot windows and load my
Maxtor drive.
 
 
 
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