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In bit.listserv.os2-l Don R <odat@ccnet.com> wrote:

: I upgraded my system and added a new drive and Win 95. My intent was to 
: be able to boot either OS/2 on the old drive or Win 95 on the new drive.

If you add the new drive as the slave, you won't be able to boot Win 95
off it, as it insists on being on drive C:.

If you put the new drive in place of the first (master) drive, and move
the master to the slave, it will change drive letters, preventing OS/2
from running. OS/2 can boot from anywhere, but in this case you'd have to
reinstall it, so that everything would point to D: instead of C:. 

: Well, somewhere along the way, I zigged when I should have zagged and 
: can now only access my OS/2 drive via the command line *after* using a 
: few of the install disks.

What about Win 95?

: What I need to know, is what do I need to do to, first, be able to access 
: my OS/2 drive in order to rescue my files?

I'd need to know more about what you've done so far before I could advise
you what to do next. That is, what are the partitions on each drive? What 
can you boot? Etc.

: And, second, what do I need to do to be able to boot either OS/2 or Win
: 95?

OK... When I first got this computer, it was all DOS/Win 3.1. Later, I
installed OS/2 over that, as a Dual Boot system. Finally, when I wanted to
install Win 95 (and Linux, but that's another story): I used Partition
Magic to shrink the C: partition. I installed OS/2's Boot Manager, made a
new primary DOS partition (also C: -- only one can be active at a time),
and installed Win 95 on it. Win 95 rewrote the Master Boot Record,
disabling Boot Manager; but all I had to do was boot OS/2 from the startup
disks, run FDISK, and mark the Boot Manager active. Then reboot, and
voila!

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