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Re: nt doesn't feel like booting

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From: Akis Alexiou
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:00
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If you install your windows nt on your 1st partition
it is going to work.
As far as I  know windows nt have to be on the 1st partiotion to boot


Jesse Courchaine wrote:

> Here's the situation:
> 1) 6.4 GB HD, using a boot manager like bootmagic (called masterbooter)
> that switches the selected partition active and hides the other ones
> 2) Installed 95 on first partition
> 3) Installed Linux on third partition, with an extended partition after
> that and a logical swap partition
> 4) Attempted to install NT on second partition (formated FAT).. it got
> to the part of setup where it reboots and attempts to load the blue
> screen
> 5) rebooted and tried to select the partition but it stopped dead..
> 6) looked at NT  partition.. it has the boot files there, just doesn't
> want to boot
> 7) tried over without a boot manager (had NT partition load with dos,
> that worked fine, until NT tried to reboot again and no luck.)
>
> any sugguestions? i think im missing something here :)
>
> Thanks all,
> -Jesse [ jesse @ starmail . com ]
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From: Akis Alexiou <ta154@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: nt doesn't feel like booting
Date: 1999/06/07
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