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dual booting windows 3.11 with windows95

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Name: me
Date: May 13, 2002 at 18:44:47 Pacific
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after installing windows 3.11 ive been havin trouble startig either version of widows. (i started of first with windows 95 then install 3.11. when i turn on the computer the windows 3.11 startup screen comes on then the screen goes black and all i can see is a blinking underline ( _ ). then i hit f8 to go to command promt. when i type in c:\windows\win windows 95 starts to load then i get a vfat error. but after i delete the windows 3.11 directory windows works again. why cant i make them both work? after i install windows 3.11 i click on return to dos and then windows 3.11 works but after i restart neather OS loads...



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Name: JL
Date: May 13, 2002 at 19:09:13 Pacific
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Can they co-exist in one partition?


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Response Number 2
Name: me
Date: May 13, 2002 at 19:33:01 Pacific
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yea


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Response Number 3
Name: joe
Date: May 13, 2002 at 19:38:23 Pacific
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3.11? aren't we behind the times...


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Response Number 4
Name: JL
Date: May 13, 2002 at 20:47:55 Pacific
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Don't they use different versions of command.com? I mean: can Win95 use the Win3.11 command.com?


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Response Number 5
Name: Rose M
Date: May 14, 2002 at 00:41:15 Pacific
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I found this site, which is about running Win95 and Win3.1 on the same computer:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4801/win95.html

Hope it helps.


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