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Article #2189Re: win95 win98 and win nt4.0 on the same computer
From: SLYKING
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
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I recently attempted to install WindowsNT onto my hard drive which already had Windows95, using Partition Magic. I followed the instructions in the manual, and used the included boot manager. However, when I tried to run Windows95, it prompted me to "C>Enter your command interpreteur(e.g.C:\Windows\command.com). I couldn't figure out what the problem was. Can anyone help? Fred Vander Werff wrote: > Stephan: > > You may find that the cleanest, easiest way to install these OS's on the same > machine would be to use PowerQuest's PartitionMagic software to set up the > partitions on your primary bootable drive. If you already have an operating > system installed on the machine, PartitionMagic will create the other partitions > without affecting any of the data or programs you already have on the drive. > Once the partitions are created, installed the other operating systems is > simple: just set the partition you want to install an OS to as the Active > partition, boot to it, install the OS, then go back to PartitionMagic and set > the next partition Active, until you're done. Afterward, you can use IBM's Boot > Manager (included with PartitionMagic) to manage which OS to boot to. > > This is a basic outline of a detailed process. For more details, check out our > website at www.powerquest.com. The Support area of the site includes Technical > White Papers that cover a multi-operating system setup that you may find > helpful. > > Thanks- > > Fred Vander Werff > PowerQuest Corporation > > Stephan Leuenberger wrote: > > > I'd like to have ,win95, win98 and win nt4.0 on the same computer, what is > > the easyest and best way to do this? with several harddisk or some software?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f93f,95b843263d398f9f X-Google-Attributes: gid10f93f,public X-Google-Thread: 114df1,95b843263d398f9f X-Google-Attributes: gid114df1,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,95b843263d398f9f X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,95b843263d398f9f X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,95b843263d398f9f X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: 10204d,95b843263d398f9f X-Google-Attributes: gid10204d,public From: SLYKING@prodigy.net Subject: Re: win95 win98 and win nt4.0 on the same computer Date: 1998/04/29 Message-ID: <35478B76.C30C4C7@prodigy.net> X-Deja-AN: 348922780 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6hvhsf$d6k2@news-sol-int.swissonline.ch> <35450413.20960FF5@powerquest.com> X-Auth-User: 002670595/09307ac5704d5ed0 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Post-Time: 30 Apr 1998 01:19:11 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Prodigy Services Corp X-Problems-To: abuse@prodigy.net Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.software,comp.hardware,comp.software,comp.software.international