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Started by Jurg
Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00
Dual boot
Author: Jurg
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00
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Hello,
I've got 2 hard disks in my computer. One on which is WinNT 4.0, my primary
OS. On the other one, I keep Win95, primarily for games play. My current
situation is as follows: every time I want to boot Win95, I have to switch
my hard disk cables so that my second hard disk becomes the first disk, and
vice versa. And when I want to boot NT again, I have to do the same job...
I know it is possible to dual boot with WinNT, but it implies modifying the
boot.ini file, which is located in the root folder. I've already tried
several settings, but I can't get it right (I've included my current
boot.ini file).
I really hope any of you guys can help me with this problem. What I would
like to have, is a boot.ini file that would make it possible to dual boot
between WinNT 4.0 and Win95 (by the way, my NT disk is NTFS, and the Win95
disk is FAT).
Please do not reply to the newsgroup message, but direct all mail to my
email address.
Regards,
Jurgen De Dobbeleer (jurg@unicall.be)
P.S.: Don't mind the F-drive in the boot.ini file (A: floppy, B: /; C:
first hard disk; D: partition on first hard disk; E: CD-ROM; F: second hard
disk)
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Re: Dual boot
Author: Ode
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00
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In article <01bc648e$cf8f4d20$0100007f@jurg>, Jurg (jurg@unicall.be) says... > >Hello, > >I've got 2 hard disks in my computer. One on which is WinNT 4.0, my primary >OS. On the other one, I keep Win95, primarily for games play. My current >situation is as follows: every time I want to boot Win95, I have to switch >my hard disk cables so that my second hard disk becomes the first disk, and >vice versa. And when I want to boot NT again, I have to do the same job... ....... (snip) Windows95 should be installed on the first hard disk on the C:\ partition and NT on the second hard disk. Windows95 only works if its installed on the first hard disk on C:\ -- Ode -- -- owallian@cc.hut.fi | My email address is altered to Helsinki University of Technology | prevent spamming. Please remove the Laboratory of Media Technology | leading '?' for the correct address.
Re: Dual boot
Author: Morten Warankov
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:00
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Spamless wrote: > > On 19 May 1997 20:39:42 GMT, ?owallian@cc.hut.fi (Ode) wrote: > > >In article <01bc648e$cf8f4d20$0100007f@jurg>, Jurg (jurg@unicall.be) says... > >> > >>Hello, > >> > >>I've got 2 hard disks in my computer. One on which is WinNT 4.0, my primary > >>OS. On the other one, I keep Win95, primarily for games play. My current > >>situation is as follows: every time I want to boot Win95, I have to switch > >>my hard disk cables so that my second hard disk becomes the first disk, and > >>vice versa. And when I want to boot NT again, I have to do the same job... > > > > ....... (snip) > > > > Windows95 should be installed on the first hard disk on the > > C:\ partition and NT on the second hard disk. Windows95 > > only works if its installed on the first hard disk on C:\ > > > > -- Ode -- > > > > WRONG! > > Iv'e installed Win95 on drive D:\ on more than one occasion without any > problems. But you keep your name secret so noone can check it :) BTW, is it possible to install WIN95 _after_ NT4.0 ? The WIN95 setup exits with error message. I'm using Nt 4.0 and 6.2/3.11 now, and I want to upgrade my 6.2/3..1 to WIN95. Mortenw
Re: Dual boot
Author: DarkLord
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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>> >> Windows95 should be installed on the first hard disk on the >> C:\ partition and NT on the second hard disk. Windows95 >> only works if its installed on the first hard disk on C:\ >> >> -- Ode -- >> > >WRONG! > >Iv'e installed Win95 on drive D:\ on more than one occasion without any >problems. > I too, and with NT in C:\ (FAT, of course, with NTFS it's impossible) I have the same problem, but... i use removible disks :-)
Re: Dual boot
Author: DarkLord
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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>BTW, is it possible to install WIN95 _after_ NT4.0 ? >The WIN95 setup exits with error message. >I'm using Nt 4.0 and 6.2/3.11 now, and I want to upgrade my 6.2/3..1 to >WIN95. > Bad thing :-(... you must format the disk and begin from zero
Re: Dual boot
Author: Wonhui Cho
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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So, if I want to have DOS 6.2, WIN 3.1, WIN95, and WIN NT4.0, can I do following? (I currently have DOS, Win 3.11, and NT on C:\). For my second computer, I want to put Win 95 for my Kid's games. Can I put Win 95 in D:\ directory in a same primary HDD? Can the Win 95 system files can be shared with NT as NT can share the windows directory with Win 3.11? Is Boot manager of NT going to handle booting process to choose DOS, Win95 or NT? W.Cho cho@che.utexas.edu
Re: Dual boot
Author: Richard Greene
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <3397B144.41C67EA6@che.utexas.edu>, Wonhui Cho <cho@che.utexas.edu> wrote:
>So, if I want to have DOS 6.2, WIN 3.1, WIN95, and WIN NT4.0,
>can I do following?
>
>(I currently have DOS, Win 3.11, and NT on C:\).
>
>For my second computer, I want to put Win 95 for my Kid's games.
>
>Can I put Win 95 in D:\ directory in a same primary HDD?
>Can the Win 95 system files can be shared with NT as NT can share
>the windows directory with Win 3.11?
>
>Is Boot manager of NT going to handle booting process to choose
>DOS, Win95 or NT?
>
>W.Cho
>cho@che.utexas.edu
YES to all. I am running NT4.0, Windows '95, and DOS 6.22. Your Windows 3.11
requires the Dos 6.22 environment and hence can be run directly after booting
to DOS.
Richard
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Re: Dual boot
Author: Ironclaw
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, DarkLord wrote: > >BTW, is it possible to install WIN95 _after_ NT4.0 ? > >The WIN95 setup exits with error message. > >I'm using Nt 4.0 and 6.2/3.11 now, and I want to upgrade my 6.2/3..1 to > >WIN95. > > > Bad thing :-(... you must format the disk and begin from zero I am not sure that is a true issue. If the drive is in FAT format, you might want to try this (disclaimer this will destroy nt on your harddrive forcing a recovery if this wont work, and a reinstall if you delete it). Put a boot disk in the drive ( DOS or 95 is fine) and type SYS C:. THis copies dos system file onto the system, then delete the windows Nt files. Then use the DOS prompt to install WIn 95. In theory it should work. I have not stepped through this process farther than acidently geting my windows nt machine to boot to dos when i wanted to recover it..( i was new then). GIve it a shot, it might just work, and then you would have all your data. -Ironclaw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _ .----. . - . PROGRAM (PRO'-gram') [n] A magic spell cast over a |C>_.|.:' .:. . computer allowing it to turn one's input into error __|____|__ `:. O_/ messages. [vi] To engage in a pastime similar to | ______--| \/M banging one's head against a wall, but, with fewer `-/.::::.\-' _/ \_ opportunities for reward. `--------' Ironclaw: hultmane@river.it.gvsu.edu
Re: Dual boot
Author: Jake
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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I have NT installed on a 1 gig NTFS primary partition FreeBSD installed on a 500 meg primary and DOS installed on a 500 meg primary I can boot any of the three using NT boot loader I installed NT first, then FreeBSD, then DOS I had to use FreeBSD to make the files bootsect.bsd and bootsect.dos then put them in boot.ini, and voila! I can see all partitions in all operating systems NT see my Dos partition as D: FreeBSD doesn't support NTFS, but I can mount my dos partition from /dev/wd0s4 and in Dos I can see my NT partition as e: using ntfsdos.exe Works great! Just be sure to make the dos partition in dos, not NT I don't know where the rumour came from that c: has to be NTFS if you want to boot dos from D: (DOS sees it as C: of course) You just need to be able to make the bootsector files your self. Good luck! Jake
Re: Dual boot
Author: Joel B Couch
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
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DarkLord (mmillan@lander.es) wrote: : >BTW, is it possible to install WIN95 _after_ NT4.0 ? That is the way that I did it: installing DOS first onto a FAT C: partition, then installing win3.11 on C:. I installed NT onto a D: partition (that could be either NTFS or FAT. I've done it both ways). Then I installed Win95 onto a FAT E: partition. When the system starts the NT boot loader menu offers choices of booting into NT or "MSDOS". Choosing DOS from this menu starts Windows 95. If I hit the F8 function key when "Starting Windows 95" is displayed, I get a menu with one option being something like, "start previos version of DOS". Choosing this option will go into 6.22 and then Win3.1 if so configured. When I reinstalled something I lost my "previous version of DOS" menu option, but that was working fine for quite awhile. One thing that I picked up from this thread is that the C: drive should be FAT with DOS system files installed on it to make things simpler. I believe the others that it is possible to fix up BOOT.INI. That's interesting. I never knew about that, but installing things as I said I never had to worry about such things. Everything just worked. : >The WIN95 setup exits with error message. : >I'm using Nt 4.0 and 6.2/3.11 now, and I want to upgrade my 6.2/3..1 to : >WIN95. : > : Bad thing :-(... you must format the disk and begin from zero I don't believe this. My experience is contrary. -- ___________________________________________________________ jbciii@world.std.com Joel Bostwick Couch III
Re: Dual boot
Author: Danny Weiss
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:13:16 +0200, "DarkLord" <mmillan@lander.es>
wrote:
>>BTW, is it possible to install WIN95 _after_ NT4.0 ?
>>The WIN95 setup exits with error message.
>>I'm using Nt 4.0 and 6.2/3.11 now, and I want to upgrade my 6.2/3..1 to
>>WIN95.
>>
>Bad thing :-(... you must format the disk and begin from zero
>
>
You could do this, I think, IF you want to install dual boot with
another partition and use something like partition magic. That would
require creating the new partition, installing the dual boot option,
and then moving your existing Dos/Windows installation to the new
partition before doing the 95 upgrade. Since you would then be
installing 95 on the partition w/o NT, you should be able to preserve
you NT install. Of course, if you want to have NT and 95 on the same
partition, you're probably out of luck, in terms of being able to do
what you want without installing everything all over again.
-Danny
dweiss@ibm.net
Director, Management Information Systems
DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Re: Dual boot
Author: AAD
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
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I had dual boot NT4/ dos6.2/windows for workgroups. I simply booted in dos with access to the cdrom. Win 95 complained i had another os and stuff. I simply Ran the setup in win95 dirctory on the cd rom thats it. When I rebooted win 95 had taken over dos6.2-windows for workgoups slot on the multi boot option the nt gives. I wnt back deleted the dos6.2 and windows for workgroups. Now I have N4/ win95 on the same partition and disk. Note: I installed win95 oem2 Boot partition(c:) is formatted using fat16 Nt4 cant read fat32 win95 cant read ntfs In article <339b43f1.2159685@199.45.32.36>, dannyw@bellatlantic.net (Danny Weiss) wrote: -On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:13:16 +0200, "DarkLord" <mmillan@lander.es> -wrote: - ->>BTW, is it possible to install WIN95 _after_ NT4.0 ? ->>The WIN95 setup exits with error message. ->>I'm using Nt 4.0 and 6.2/3.11 now, and I want to upgrade my 6.2/3..1 to ->>WIN95. ->> ->Bad thing :-(... you must format the disk and begin from zero -> -> - -You could do this, I think, IF you want to install dual boot with -another partition and use something like partition magic. That would -require creating the new partition, installing the dual boot option, -and then moving your existing Dos/Windows installation to the new -partition before doing the 95 upgrade. Since you would then be -installing 95 on the partition w/o NT, you should be able to preserve -you NT install. Of course, if you want to have NT and 95 on the same -partition, you're probably out of luck, in terms of being able to do -what you want without installing everything all over again. - - -Danny - dweiss@ibm.net - Director, Management Information Systems - DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services
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