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Greets. Yeah my main box is down for now so Im on a 500mhz messing with dos 6/7 and 2000.
I managed to get DOS to work as a standalone OS, the problem is I'd like to get some kind of dual boot between 2000 and DOS going. The problem is I'm not sure what approach I can take. Im good with DOS, I'm just not too good with boots and partitons. I was going to mess with boot.ini but that made me grab a copy of it and NTFS4DOS just in case.
Also look at.......
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306559
...but if you install MS-DOS6 on C: W2K will auot install a boot loader on C: when installed on another partition.
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Erm after reading some of this I noticed an error I made; the order in which the OSes have to be installed. You mentioned 2000 would auto install the NT boot loader or something. Is there any way I can invoke it into checking for different OSes?
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Install MS-DOS6 on C:
Install W2K on D: and W2K will realise that there are MS-DOS boot files on C: and install its own Boot Loader file, this preserves MS-DOS6 and at boot up will be presented with a choice either MS-DOS or W2K.
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Ok guys I was able to use this and it worked quite nicely. http://www.bcpl.net/~dbryan/ntfs-dual-boot.html
However the advice you people have given has also been quite useful, thanks. Im still messing around but so far so good.
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I doubt you can make 2000's boot loaded check for OS's installed after 2000 but there are plenty of 3'd party booloaders that will. Still, I'd follow hiho's advice and install DOS first, then 2000.
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G'day Hiho,
Now I find this very interesting, you see I did a clean install of win2k on my laptop and desktop, when the laptop is fired up it gives the choice of DOS or 2k, the desktop just boots into 2k.
Both machines are formatted in Fat and both have no partitions as far I know, both formatted and fdisc?
As a novice I have not been brave enough to select the DOS on the laptop, but suspect it may come in handy one day if I need to reset the register to an earlier date.
Just wondering what I (or the magic box) did to get two results?
Great forum, great people, fantastic for someone like me trying to learn a bit more about win2k in particular and computing generally, Keep the excellent work people, we love it.
Avagoodweekend.
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OS: If you installed W2K from MS-DOS it would list a Dual O/S, though you would probably have a total of 4 or 5 MS-DOS System files only:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307848
The above is XP but W2K is same, basically one fdisks and formats the hard drive with say a W98SE boot disk. You then issue from the boot disk SYS C: which transfer the MS-DOS system files to the C: drive, you then copy over the contents of the W2K CD to a directory. On reboot with the boot disk you will have just the C:\_ prompt, if you navigate to the directory with W2K files and run WINNT it will start the W2K install process albeit slowly because you need to have SMARTDRV loaded.
The following article though aimed at Laptops is the same principal:
http://83.67.55.228/msdosnt5.htm
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Curt R: Yes you can install an O/S after W2K, but in the case of MS-DOS it is tricky without a 3rd party boot manager:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;104429
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Response 8 should not state
"reboot with the boot disk"
..it should state
"reboot WITHOUT the boot disk"
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Hi O S,
Likely the difference in your two rigs is the one with dual boot was SYS'd [or format c: /s]
and the other was not.M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Thanks folks,
I had trouble remembering the sequence at the time of up-upgrading, and thou that was only weeks ago, I have no Idea what caused the two to finish up the way they did, but you have given enough information and links to keep me going for a day or two.
Avagoodweekend...
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