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"-" <dko8131@vip.cybercity.dk> writes:

>I have win95 on 2 seperate drives (c:\windows and e:\win95), but can boot to
>one only.
>Do I have to reinstall in order to make dual boot work or is there some
>other way ????

Win95 can only boot from C:

It's a matter of having a 'Msdos.sys' file in the root dir that points to
the installation you want to run. If you do not understand what I mean
repost to this thread for more detail.

Errol


- wrote in message
>Question
>I have win95 on 2 seperate drives (c:\windows and e:\win95), but can boot
to
>one only.
>Do I have to reinstall in order to make dual boot work or is there some
>other way ????
>Beginner
>
>
>

I suspect you are!! what corruption?

Errol

DrPc wrote 
>I guess I'm puzzled.  Why on earth would you want to do that?  With win95's
>profiles feature, I can not imagine why you would risk all that corruption
>to make a dual boot of win95.

Are you using Disk Compression?

Errol


S.T. Wong wrote 
>Hi,
>
>I've similar setup (c:\windows and d:\win95).  After installing the newer
>version d:\win95, I tried to resume to the older one by setting the boot
>directory in Msdos.sys to point to c:\windows. However, the PC was still boot
>up using d:\win95.  When I put the msdos.sys on a bootable floppy created 
>under the older copy in c:\windows, the boot up was okay!  I wonder if there
>is any setting other than Msdos.sys I missed.
>
>Would anyone pls help?
>
>Thanks a lot
>Regards,
>ST Wong

what if I wanna run dual with Win95 and WinNT?  What changes should I make
to choose operating system during startup???
Pls email me back.  Thanks

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DrPc wrote in message <35796fa4.0@xnet.dynip.com>...
>I guess I'm puzzled.  Why on earth would you want to do that?  With win95's
>profiles feature, I can not imagine why you would risk all that corruption
>to make a dual boot of win95.

As an alternative, you can configure the CONFIG.SYS and the AUTOEXEC.BAT files to
have dual boot.  Below are my config.sys and autoexec.bat files which I
configured to have a menu at boot up.  Here I have three options to choose from
at boot up: Boot to Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and MS-DOS.


Here is the CONFIG.SYS file:

[MENU]
MENUITEM=WIN95,Load Windows 95 (default)
MENUITEM=WIN31,Load Windows 3.1
MENUITEM=MSDOS,Load MS-DOS
MENUDEFAULT=WIN95,5
MENUCOLOR=15,1

[COMMON]
DEVICE=C:\SC400\SOUND.SYS /I:5 /D:1 /MIRQ:9 /G:1 /CDT:1 /CDP:230 /SSP:530
DEVICE=D:\WIN95\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=80
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:512
DEVICE=C:\SC400\GCDR420.SYS /D:MSCD001 /V/C /M:P /B:230

[WIN95]

[WIN31]

[MSDOS]


In the config.sys file above, you see there are five sections.  The first one is
MENU; here is the menu you see at the system booting up, and it's where  you can
make selection of which evironment you want to use.  The second section is
COMMON; here is where all the common configurations for your evironments goes
to.  The last three are WIN95, WIN31, MSDOS for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and
MS-DOS respectively; these are places where environment specific configurations
go to, but I did put anything in these places because I didn't have any
environment specific configuration.




Here is the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

C:\SC400\SBPRO.EXE 3
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
D:\WIN95\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V  /L:G
@ECHO OFF
PATH D:\WIN95;D:\WIN95\COMMAND;D:\WIN95\AUTORUN;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\PS1TOOLS;C:\

PATH=E:\BC5\BIN;%PATH%
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
ECHO y | LOCK > NUL
UNLOCK
LH D:\WIN95\COMMAND\DOSKEY
C:\PS1TOOLS\HWCHECK
CALL D:\HUYBAKUP.BAT
CLS
GOTO %config%

:WIN95
C:\PS1TOOLS\PS1START.BAT
GOTO END

:WIN31
C:\PS1TOOLS\STARTW31.BAT
GOTO END

:MSDOS
C:\PS1TOOLS\STARTDOS.BAT
GOTO END

:END

The autoexe.bat file above divided into four sections.  The first on has no name
and it start from the begin to the the keyword GOTO; here is where all the common
configurations for your environment goes.  The next three are WIN95, WIN31, and
MSDOS for Windows 95, Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS respectively. In each of these
sections, you can put a batch file to invoke respective environment, or you can
put a call to the environment directly such as D:\WIN95\WIN.COM in the WIN95
section to load Windows 95, C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM in the WIN31 section to load
Windows 3.1, and C:\COMMAND.COM in the MSDOS section to load MS-DOS.  Lastly, the
section END, here is all your environment terminate, and it should bring you  to
MS-DOS Prompt on default.



Huy




S.T. Wong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've similar setup (c:\windows and d:\win95).  After installing the newer
> version d:\win95, I tried to resume to the older one by setting the boot
> directory in Msdos.sys to point to c:\windows. However, the PC was still boot
> up using d:\win95.  When I put the msdos.sys on a bootable floppy created
> under the older copy in c:\windows, the boot up was okay!  I wonder if there
> is any setting other than Msdos.sys I missed.
>
> Would anyone pls help?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Regards,
> ST Wong
>
> Errol M. Nielsen (Errol_Nielsen@msn.com) wrote:
> : It's a matter of having a 'Msdos.sys' file in the root dir that points to
> : the installation you want to run. If you do not understand what I mean
> : repost to this thread for more detail.
>
> : Errol
>
> : - wrote in message
> : >Question
> : >I have win95 on 2 seperate drives (c:\windows and e:\win95), but can boot
> : to
> : >one only.
> : >Do I have to reinstall in order to make dual boot work or is there some
> : >other way ????
> : >Beginner
> : >



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In article <6lehbj$ee9$1@news.NERO.NET>, WK <krismanw@XXXucs.orst.edu>
writes
>what if I wanna run dual with Win95 and WinNT?  What changes should I make
>to choose operating system during startup???
>Pls email me back.  Thanks
if you install winnt after you have already installed win95 on the
machine then when booting you are automatically asked which opsys you
want to boot into.  good eh!

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>DrPc wrote in message <35796fa4.0@xnet.dynip.com>...
>>I guess I'm puzzled.  Why on earth would you want to do that?  With win95's
>>profiles feature, I can not imagine why you would risk all that corruption
>>to make a dual boot of win95.
>
>

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Garry Beevers

This only works if you're using FAT16, if you're using OSR2 with FAT32
then NT doesn't recognise the Windows 95 installation and won't dual
boot. Beware if you install OSR2 *AFTER* NT4, OSR2 sees a bootable NT
partition as a corrupted FAT16 partition and tries to 'repair' it,
resulting in no NT4 anymore !!

In my experience OSR2 (FAT32) and NT4 can only be dual booted using
something like Multi-Boot (~�16.50 from www.tec-advice.com). Partition
Magic boot manager failed to work properly on my set up, not handling
the FAT32 partition correctly. I gather system Commander also works but
is much more expensive (~�65.00).

In article <tbtbTAAG74e1Ew5d@foxtondies.com>, Garry Beevers
<Garry@gazbi.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <6lehbj$ee9$1@news.NERO.NET>, WK <krismanw@XXXucs.orst.edu>
>writes
>>what if I wanna run dual with Win95 and WinNT?  What changes should I make
>>to choose operating system during startup???
>>Pls email me back.  Thanks
>if you install winnt after you have already installed win95 on the
>machine then when booting you are automatically asked which opsys you
>want to boot into.  good eh!
>
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