I have 2 operating systems installed i.e. Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I want to hide one of these systems so theyre not displayed at startup (when you choose which system to load) instead i want to have a button to be pressed i.e. F8 (or any other button/ key sequence) to allow this system to be shown/loaded anyone know how this can be done or anything along the lines of this?

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on windowsXP right click on my computer and click properties

go to advanced and press the settings button in startup and recovery box

you can make XP the default Os that computer will boot to and hide the other os

You can hide the drives from disk management, and edit boot.ini to hide the menu, but that wont give you any hidden option functionality. To do that you need a bootloader, I use XOSL but there are several that can hide partitions and require passwords.