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Another Multi/Dual boot question....
When I try to install win3.xx or win95, setup reports it cannot find the ending cluster of drive c: and will not continue, since scandisk cannot repair that one. Any ideas? TIA... del The simple answer is to uninstall NT, install Win95 or Win3.11 FIRST, then install NT for a dual boot. If you do not want to go that

Another Dual Boot Question
What, do you wager, are the odds that MS will recognize the need for a mail client that lends itself well to dual-boot systems? OE 6.5, anyone? When I switch OSs - from Win2K to Win98 or vice-versa - and try to access my NG accounts, I'm greeted with the message: "This account is not properly configured".

Dual-boot question.
mikey mikey...@bellsouth.net microsoft public windowsme general $Cck this reference. it supposedly is for multiple languages of the same OS. so might not work with ME and W98SE. Multi-BOOT windows The utility at this site should help to get you going: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/gbl-gen/intlboot.asp

Dual Boot Question
I have Windows XP (Home Edition) on an 80 Gig HD. I have installed a 2nd 40 Gig HD which currently lies empty (the 80 Gig is less than fifty percent full). How can I partition the 40 Gig & use the XP loader menu (BOOT.INI) to boot Windows 3.x Windows NT Windows 9x and Linux (or other OS) while I keep the 80 Gig for

Yet Another Dual Boot Question...
<g> It means I can use a standard boot disk without NTFS support and still ghost my NTFS drives) but here's a nice free utility that will clone your entire drive to another drive. Today drive prices are so cheap there's no real excuse for not being able to afford one if you have a decent drive already and have a

Another Dual Boot Question
Tony Martino n...@spam.com microsoft public windowsnt setup Hello, I am yet another person attempting to dual-boot NT & 98 on the same system. Cannot seem to find enough info to do this with any sucess. Here are my issues & questions: o NT 4.0 SP3 is on my first drive on my primary controller o Win98 is on my second

Another Dual Boot question (reprise)
Assuming it is somewhat the same, you go into System Properties, the Hardware Configuration tab, you copy the existing hardware profile to another name. Hi- I got my PC doing a dual boot, that was simple enough (as I installed NT 4.0 over Win 98, it did it automatically). Here's the question.

another different dual boot question!
If C: is not NTFS, then you're fine. Just boot from the win95b startup disk, use FDISK to create a partition on your second drive, and install win95 on that drive. You will lose your dual boot if memory serves me correctly. To restore it, boot from the win2k cd or disks, and choose Repair Installation... you need

Yet Another Dual Boot Question...
First if Dell are sending you an upgrade version of XP that means you can only upgrade over another Windows operating system. In your case Windows ME. Dual boots are Finally when you upgrade to XP make sure that you install to the second partition and not drive C otherwise you may loose the dual boot function.

Another Dual Boot Question
MS caters to the general public and not to the few that dual or multi boot. steve "Ken Zenachon" <yah_meNOS...@yahoo.com> wrote in message I'll test my theory out by doing another complete OE backup in Win98 and bringing the account into Win2k (after removing the current accounts, of course) and then switching

Another Dual Boot Question
You can not have two window installs on two different drives (both active and visible) and have them both seen as drive C: when you boot up either one. The one that is NOT being Here is my rationale: A clone of an OS is the same as another installation of the OS done in isolation from the 1st installation.

Another Dual-boot question
If there is not enough space for a parallel = installation, you can add another drive to the computer temporarily, and = then perform the parallel ..... =3D20 People have screamed their opposing positions on this question at each other over and over and over and over, in this group and in others, for a long time.

Another dual boot question relating to dos?
If they're not there, I think you can copy them from the i386 folder in the installation CD. *TimDaniels* "Jim" wrote: Many thanks Timothy for your in depth reply. to dual-boot, or 2) make each boot.ini file in the 2 HDs designate a mono-boot, and reversing the HDs in the BIOS's HD boot order to select the OS.

Dual boot question
Dual-boot with third-party operating systems, such as Novell DR DOS and IBM OS/2, is not supported. For more information on dual booting Windows 98 with a third-party operating system, you should contact your operating system vendor." There is another contradicting section in RK: "You cannot set up a computer to

A Dual-boot question; I thought C was always the partition ...
I then use bootpart to add The grubb boot sector into the Standard XP Multiboot menu? Thanks for the help, Jc. Correct. You will be prompted where to install Grub before anything is written. Also keep in mind linux does not use "C Drive" or "D Drive" conventions. C will be /dev/hda1 and D will be /dev/hda2 etc.

Another dual boot question
Also many of the dos commands like move and copy don't work when I dual boot to my old dos setup. My question is should I copy my old dos into the new dos directory and not overwrite any files or is there some other way to get the dual boot to look into my old dos's directory. I have tried moving my new dos to a

Help - another dual boot question
The ARC path in the BOOT.INI file will need to be modified to reflect the different partitions." This makes me suspect dual boot may be possible. However, I do not know precisely what entry I should add to BOOT.INI, other than adjusting the ARC path to point to the other partition. Do I need to specify the \WINDOWS

Another Dual Boot Question
I have had winxp home and red hat 7.2 running on a dual boot with PM7 and boot magic 7, no problems. I then got my sweaty little hands on a copy of winxp pro (yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus, he works at UPS off season) which I installed onto the first sector of my second HD. OK, went easy enough and I set up

another NT & 98 dual boot question
There's two ways that I know of to manage a dual-boot Windows 2000 and Linux system: 1. The system boots from the GRUB boot partition, and it can load up Linux, I'm not certain what the position is for RH9, as I've had plenty of reasons to avoid it. 2. The system boots up from the Windows bootloader in the MBR,

Yet another Dual Boot question
Most likely you would have re-install the programs and not be able to use the ones on C: drive. The reason is that when you install a Windows program, it gets installed in three places. One, it actually changes Windows itself by modifying the registry. Two, files for the program are often installed in Windows or