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Win95 and WinNT
Name: Alla Date: November 15, 1999 at 11:08:58 Pacific
Comment:
Hi! I had Windows 95 on my PC, than I installed Windows NT. Questions: 1. How to connect printer and modem on NT? 2.When I tryed to reinstall Windows 95 again from recovery CD, I could not start Windows 95.Even thought recovery completed successfully, but when I rebooted PC I've got message:OS losding... and that was it. Please advice.
Name: Ryan Cooley Date: November 15, 1999 at 17:53:53 Pacific
Reply:
1. The problem is probably that NT doesn't have the drivers for your modem and printer. Go to www.windrivers.com and click on Advanced search. Then you can look up the drivers for your specific hardware. 2. You need to include some more info.
Hi, Windows 95 and Windows NT in the same machine - dual boot, is a little bit complicated. If you had installed Windows 95 first (which must be the case for dual boot) then I need to know which FAT format did you do? If you had used Windows 95 to format your hard drive than Windows NT will not be able to read the drive and will skip Windows 95 load - it will load Windows NT only. However, if you had used DOS to format the hard drive, then installed Windows 95, and finally, Windows NT - all will work just fine. You will have dual boot - DOS and Windows NT loader.
Check out which FAT format you have in your hard drive - a Windows 95 32 bit format is not good for Dual Boot with Windows NT.
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