Need to get the how abouts of installing dual boot NT and 95

On a clean system: (1) Install 95 on the computer in the first primary partition. (c:\ in MS terms), leave some unpartitioned space free. (2) Install NT, you might have to add a line in the boot.ini file to point to win9x. Systems with 9x preinstalled will need to repartition or add another drive. Systems with preinstalled NT need to have there bootsector and some other files backuped before installing 9x.

Hi, http://www.wugnet.com/articles/multiboot/mboot.html http://www.compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/dualboot.html http://www.worldowindows.com/dualboot.html http://www.winplanet.com/features/howtos/ntdirectboot/ http://www.webdev.net/orca/nojava/faq.htm will all give you useful 'how to do it...' info. Briefly, The C; partition (system or bootable partition) must FAT16 for a dual boot with '9x and NT. It can be as little as 150Meg; at least one Network Pro advises that you have C: primary of around 1- 2Gig, install DOS first; then install '9x; then install NT. Having this setup, which includes DOS allows easier trouble shooting... Personally I have an HD with two primary partitions; both are 1Gig; one with '98 installed, and and one with NT installed. I used PM to create a scondary bootable partition (primary partition); you cn do the same using NT... Once the OS's are installed, NT allows choice of which OS to use at boot up. Without resorting to PM (or otherwise) and creating an additional primary partition... install 9x first in FAT16 (C: drive - primary partition...), then install NT, into its own space (on a logical drive...) which can be NTFS if you wish; but remember that '9x can't see NTFS and NT can't see FAT32... You can put both OS's in the C: drive if you wish; I've done it both ways on one system. '95/NTWS/NTsvr in the C: drive (all FAT16) and NTSVR as NTFS in the E: drive... The combinations are many... If you install NT first (FAT16) then add '95 you usually lose the NT bootloader and have to restore it using the ERD repair option... BUT if you boot from DOS (ideally DOS6.22)with CDROM support, and install '95 from there, the NT bootloader isn't destroyed... Installing '98 after NT shouldn't destroy the NT boot-loader; it's said to be NT friendly... Once NT is installed, make, and keep current, the ERD; keep it safe with the 3 install floppies... Have a god read of the above links... Another useful resource (probably one of the best general acccess sites): http://www.ntfaq.com which also has an excellent 'how to do it all' area... (It also has a Forum area) It's John Savills's site. Also: http://www.VirtualDr.com has useful input from assorted OS forums; do a search there for dual boot and the amount that will come back to you is 'frightening...' Finally, http://www.pcmag.com is another excellent site forall OS's... All of these last three sites will offer innumerable links and generous input from whomever... In some respects I'm inclined to suggest that you go straight to W2K/NT5... It does read FAT32; is said to be very stable; has USB support; is the way it's going... Good luck, LM-S