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Dual Boot of Win95 and Win98
Name: Ramesh Date: August 15, 2001 at 11:53:25 Pacific
Comment:
I have loaded win95 on C drive and Win98 on the D drive of the same hard disk, but on different partitions. When i started the m/c it loaded win98 directly. How to get the dual mode into effect. Please let me know abt it ASAP.
Name: ZeB Date: August 15, 2001 at 12:20:07 Pacific
Reply:
Here's a pretty helpful article. Although I don't know why you would ever want to dual boot Win95 with Win98. Win98 is an upgrade to Win95. But to each his own...
Name: ... Date: August 15, 2001 at 16:06:42 Pacific
Reply:
There was web-site:
http://www.webdev.net/orca/
which gave a very neat way to do it; it involved a couple of batch files. Unfortunately tonite/today it seems to be unavailable - hopefully it will re-appear in due course. The site was the "Partition FAQ".
Meantime you could use a boot-manager.
PM6x has Boot-magic; Xosl.org offers a freebie; Osloader.com also offers a freebie.
Summary: I found this on the web. It should answer all your questions about dual booting: It was fairly straightforward...and not nearly as hard as it may seem from all of the long-winded explanation that foll...
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