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I am dual booting Win95 and NT Workstation but I want to upgrade Win95 to Win98. Is this going to be a problem? Thanks
Howdy, That is a very good question. I would suggest checking with MS's web site and other Windows based web sites to see if others have tried this and what there results may be. As you know when ya did the dual boot the first time you installed NT last which does the dual boot for you, so if you do the upgrade will it overwrite the bootmenu file and change things? Sorry I can't give you a direct answer but just trying to offer some suggestions.
Laters,
Kevin The Tech Dude.
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We had a guy in our class who wanted to dual boot NT on his W98 computer. We were alreadt to start when he told us he was using the VFAT or whatever that file sysytem is in W95B and 9W98. We thought he would lose everything on his hard drive and decided not to try, so I just wanted to remind you to make sure you use FAT file system for install, maybe you can use convert.exe and change the NT to NTFS? Hope I helped a little.
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We had a guy in our class who wanted to dual boot NT on his W98 computer. We were already to start when he told us he was using the VFAT or whatever that file system is in W95B and W98. We thought he would lose everything on his hard drive and decided not to try, so I just wanted to remind you to make sure you use FAT file system for install, maybe you can use convert.exe later and change the FAT NT partition to NTFS? Hope I helped a little.
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When I first read faqs about win98 I was told that win98 wouldnt dual boot with Nt there is a difference between fat32 and NTFS. I can't quite remember the reason they dont work together but they wont dual boot.
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Hi All,
I was searching on the dula boot topic and got to this page, I have a seripous problem.
I had dual boot Win 95 and NT 4.0 server. After I upgraded to 98 I lost dual boot. I
changed the bood.ini on my C drive which was 95 bit it still doesn't workCan any of the gurus please help
I appreciate your help
thanks
Nboy
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Hi All,
I was searching on the dula boot topic and got to this page, I have a serious problem.
I had dual boot Win 95 and NT 4.0 server. After I upgraded to 98 I lost dual boot. I
changed the boot.ini on my C drive which was 95 bit it still doesn't workCan any of the gurus please help
I appreciate your help
thanks
Nboy
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but W98 and W95B(or OSR2) are basically the same operateing system. The main difference being W98 has "native" FAT32 support and "Active Desk Top"(which you can't un-install, only modify). A W98 install/upgrade will not recognize and NTFS partition and I believe W98 will automattically want to create and install itself on a FAT32 partititon. I am pretty GREEN on W98, but I am sure that during the install process you will have the choice of large disk support(FAT32) or FAT16. If not I am sure there is a setup switch for which File sys to use. I am triple booting DOS/WFW, W95, and NTwkstn, using NT's bootloader. Recently I decided to convert my W95 partition to FAT32. Converted fine using CVT.EXE, no problems on subsequent boots or operations. Then I converted my NT partition to NTFS. No real problems except that W95 boots complain about NT partition being corruptand and wants to reformat it, I modified my W95 msdos.sys file with AutoScan=0 under the [options section], which kept 95 from running scandisk at each boot. I would recommend using only FAT16 for all partitions on a dual or triple boot system. Upgrading a dual boot 95/NT system to 98/NT should not be a Problem but of course is not supported by MS. Here are some links to Multi-Booting using NT's boot-loader.
http://www.techweb.com/se/altavista.cgi?pg=q&what=web&query=%2BNT+%2Bboot+%2Bloader
http://www.windows-nt.com/tipsandinfo/boot.htm
http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~dbryan/directboot.html
http://mail.bcpl.lib.md.us/~dbryan/directboot.html
http://www.almost-painless.com/cool/1996.html
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