Boot Selector problems - part2

Thanks to all who responded to my last request regarding boot
problems, especially Jon, who solved the problem (for a while!)

Jamie - I had a look at VMware, but it wasn't free - the minimum price
was well over a grand!

Now the issue.

My aim was to have a two hard-drive PC (HD0 & HD1) with three OSs:
(Win2K, XP(normal), and XP(experimental - may get trashed).

I was satisfied with my recent setup which had 3 OSs, plus PQ Boot
manager, all on HD0. Then the problems started

I tried to use Norton Ghost 9 to image these partitions and discovered
that it needs a primary partition of its own to run. Hence I can only
have 2 OS, plus the extended partition.

Next I researched the later versions of Norton and Acronis and
discovered that 80% of purchasers are having unacceptable problems
with them, so I seem to be stuck with Ghost 9.

I then found that I could put one Win2K partition on my second hard
drive HD1, thus freeing a partition for Norton Ghost on the first
drive.

Partition Magic's "Install New OS" wizard unfortunately only works
with HD0. I then attempted to install from scratch a copy of Win2K on
HD1, but it wouldn't allow me to do this (can't remember why).

Next I tried cloning the HD0 Win2K partition to a new HD1 primary
partition. I then edited the HD1 Boot.ini file to point to itself:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Win 2000" /fastdetect

Added it to Boot manager, but it didn't work - I always get HD0,
partition 1.

From reading all the confusing (and much outdated) stuff on the web it
seems that I can put the NT folder on HD1, but the boot stuff must
reside on HD0. Where would this live - does it need a primary
partition.

TIA for any help

GrahamC.
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