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do i need dos?

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Name: longman2006
Date: May 29, 2005 at 10:32:17 Pacific
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hi i have win NT 3.51, im wodnering if i need doslike with windows 3.x?
ive only used nt 4 and 2k before so i dont know aobut it but i remember using wfw 3.11 and i needed dos so i still have my dos 6.22 disks but im wondering whether i do so for win nt 3.51 and one last thing: can i dual boot like with nt and 2k and xp?? i want to run both win nt and win98? can i accomplish this?

Thx in advance!!!
Darin Luckie
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Response Number 1
Name: hiho
Date: May 29, 2005 at 23:01:07 Pacific
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Never heard of MS-DOS in the NT Family!!!

http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2Warp.html


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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 30, 2005 at 01:52:47 Pacific
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AFAIK, you don't need DOS for NT 3x.

But, keep in mind that NT 3x [and 4x ?] will not run on FAT32.



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Response Number 3
Name: hiho
Date: May 30, 2005 at 01:57:50 Pacific
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M2G does NT3 support 4gb FAT16 partitions ?? like NT4 ??


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Response Number 4
Name: hiho
Date: May 30, 2005 at 02:00:08 Pacific
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http://toastytech.com/guis/nt351.html


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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 30, 2005 at 02:41:26 Pacific
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Hi hiho,

Dunno.

Haven't messed with 3x/4 since the 520MB days.



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