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Dual Boot?
Name: k_semler Date: January 12, 2002 at 23:13:19 Pacific
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I currently have windows XP home edition installed on my computer. I wish to istall windows 95 OSR2 on D drive. Drive D is an actual physical drive, not a partition of C drive. When I boot with the windows 95 boot disk and insert my CD, it says that it is missing a DOS bootup section.
After it told me this, I went into F-disk and tried to set d:/ as the primary boot patition. it said that Fdisk can only create a DOS partition on drive C.
If I resixed my NTFS partition and put on a FAT32 on the unused disk space, would I be able to set this partition on drive C as the boot partition? or do I have to erase c: and re partition using Fdisk? I really do not trust Norton Ghost 2002, because when I did a drive change, it did not copy all files off of c:, it only did a partial copy. I had to Fdisk my whole machine and reinsall XP. Please help. Thank you
Name: MichaelU Date: January 13, 2002 at 06:06:07 Pacific
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Have you tried to disconnect the XP hard drive ide cable and then install Win 95? Sometimes that will do the trick. I have always heard others say to install the older OS before Win XP. Hope this helps.
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Response Number 2
Name: k_semler Date: January 13, 2002 at 10:40:07 Pacific
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I will give this a try. If it works, that would be alot better than having to Fdisk and reinstall everything.
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Response Number 3
Name: tom Date: January 13, 2002 at 19:13:22 Pacific
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You should install win 95 first then install xp on the other hard drive. Make both hard drives FAT 32,might ease things instead of making XP NTFS
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Response Number 4
Name: Scott Date: January 23, 2002 at 12:42:39 Pacific
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I did this and it works great - install 98 first then install partion magic 7, setup up different partion and then install XP - It will boot up with a menu to go to either OS.
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