How about a boot manager (one that can hide partitions) like the one on
http://symon.da.ru/
some of the info about it:

        SyMon is a VERY POWERFUL boot manager for IBM PC and its clones.
        It has many improvements that will allow you to maintain several
        operating systems at one hard drive. The main features of SyMon are:

        Up to 36 simultaneous independent partitions with any file system
        Up to 20 operating systems using any 4 of 36 partitions
        Built-in fdisk for easy creating, editing, deleting of the partitions
        Built-in Setup dialog for operating systems
        Multiple hard drives support. Can boot from second hard drive
        Full support of drives larger than 8Gb
        Partition search facility which can restore partition structure of disk
        Password setting/checking for each OS, floppy booting, accessing the tools
        Built-in disk editor for low level disk structures reparing
        Timer to start default operating system
        Turning off the power for ATX power supplies
        ... and more interesting features

        All these features are implemented in pure assembler so the binaries
        are shorter than 30Kb. Therefore, SyMon can be stored at track 0 of
        a hard drive and not be located within ANY file system. This allows you
        not to have any special OS (usually MS-DOS, Windows 95/NT or Linux)
        installed specially for maintaining your boot manager software.


Peter

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Brian Kraut
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 3:15 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: <OT> 95/NT dual boot problem


This is almost PIC related since my PIC work is stopped dead in its
tracks until I get this resolved.

I have been trying for a week on a 13G Maxtor and a 15G Western Digital
drive to set them up as 95/NT dual boot machines.  When I do it on a
3.5G drive everthing works fine.  On the big drives 95 installs fine,
but after NT reboots for the first time on installation I get a BSD and
an INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE message.

I have tried both DOS FAT and FAT 16.  I have tried installing NT than
95.  I have made sure EZ BIOS was not running.  I have use both the
partitioning tools with each drive and tried FDISK.  I have tried 95
full version and upgrade version.  I have tried two different NT CDs.
Nothing will work.  I can install either one by itself, but I can't get
a dual boot to work on these drives.

Please help.  I will be forever thankfull to anyone who can solve this
for me.  Doubly so if you can also copy your answer to
brian.kraut@seaserve.com.