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Setting up dual boot NT/DOS help required.
There are situations which fdisk cannot handle, where other measures are required. This appears to be one of them. I've been wrong before... Tom 1. The Windows 2000 setup process will create the dual boot system and will offer you the option of booting to Windows or to Windows 2000 when you have finished the

Dual Boot on a Tiny Machine
I have partition magic, but I'm leery of creating a new bootable partition because California is experiencing an energy crisis and power could go off at any time. I also have System Commander and Boot Magic. Will either of these help me to dual boot from drive C? Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi...you're my only hope!

creating a triple-boot configuration ...
L. Friedman bee...@earthling.net alt os linux caldera You have the boot disk that it prompted you to create when you first installed, right? Bow Shock Wave wrote: I have a dual boot Caldera / Windoze box, which has been working will for months I decided to test out a none graphical caldera edesktop start up so

Reinstall Windows
Andrew J. Wright -- Afraid the file format limitation for the active partition is correct; it has to be FAT or NTFS for NT to load and boot. To dual boot, you have a couple of options. 1. Create a 2 gig FAT partition and make it active. Install ME to that partition. Next, create either a 2 gig FAT or 4 gig NTFS

dual boot NT/2k and NetWare 4.2?
Some users report successes with various changes that influence the boot and logon timing, but these changes do not reliably solve the problem. ...... please click on > Add new comment or on reply to reply to an existing comment (below, > account required; if you don't have an account yet, create one first).

How much disk space is required when installing FreeBSD 4.7
Just put the winnt directory in another partition (no partition magic required) I have a machine which is mainly used as an NT4workstation on an NT4Server based network. However it occurs to me that with a bit of extra RAM and HD I could set it up to dual boot to NT4 server, and thereby have a backup server

Windows 98/Windows 2000 Dual Boot Removal
I wanted to have dual-boot machines (Win2K/XP and Debian), and let the students log into either OS with their NT Domain accounts. For example, in your home directory create a directory named netShare or something similar ("mkdir netShare"). Then mount your domain share with a command like "smbmount

DVD media burning question
The spouse doing homework surfs from the dual boot and the kids running ms os games would surf in between games. ------ standard newbie include file follows ----------------- Do Load CD 1 into your windows box. Look around. try clicking the tutorial folder and index.html If I were you, I would create about a ~4gig

Boot Dual Remove Xp
It didn't used to be like that and some tweaking was sometimes required. Microsoft's solution is much simpler: Don't support other OSs and don't support dual boot systems (except recognizing older windows versions). OK, well, I didn't realise that using loadlin wasn't very realistic, since it's been working for me

Icons do not show at notification area (clock tray)
X11 in UNIXen like SunOS or SCO required 16MB or RAM just to start up. Windows - dual boot on the same PC with SCO - runned fine on 8MB with Word+Excel loaded (huge apps), and was able of doing OO transport from Word to Excel. BTW - in most respects, GDI from Windows 3.x is a richer API then X11.

more people say vista sucks big time...
In this article, we’ll walk you through the steps you can use to create a dual-boot system on a Windows 95 machine. Then, we’ll show you how to .... EXE is required by your CD-ROM drive. Fortunately, Windows 95’s version of MSCDEX is backward-compatible with previous versions of DOS. Altering Windows 95's MSDOS.

2008.0 on ECS AMD690GM-M2 motherboard - help!
To "kill two birds with one stone", many users install Win98 on Drive C:, but that is not required; Win98 will be just as happy on a FAT32 Drive E:. and want to install win 2000 pro also,do I really have to uninstall win 98 to do this, or can I create another partition, and make it a dual boot?

Dual boot: XP/98--can only get XP
The choice has been to create a dual-boot system - Win98 and either 2000 or XP. After reading the "Dual boot" discussion posted on 1/16/05, pbrill1 If you decide to go for a dual-boot system (rather than a virtual PC) then you can load your OSs in any order, although some adjustments may be required to restore

Win 98/ Win 2K Dual Boot Questions
I read several MS Knowledge Base article about the Boot.ini file, ( Q289022 - HOW TO Edit the Boot_ini File in Windows XP and Q314081 - The Purpose of the Boot_ini File in Windows XP ) and I concluded that one could create a dual boot system by adding an entry for the other OS in Boot.ini.

Yet another newbie seeks help, advice, and opinion (warning ...
Create an extended partition of your Win98 required size and save changes and exit. Reboot with the floppy again and format D: (this partition will be formatted FAT32). Hi all, My friend just purchased a dual celeron system, and we were wondering how to set up our partitions for a dual NT/98 boot.

Questions using PartitionMagic for dual-boot with WinXP-Pro
My plan is to start by booting from a LiveCD, then install Linux in a dual boot with WIN98SE, then install just Linux. .... trigger the /hotplug/ event, which will in turn allow /udev/ - an unprivileged (and thus safe) process - to read the data from */sys* and create the required device special files in */dev.

emergency help required
Create an image using ghost to create a standard build. I am going to be creating the image for Dell Optipex GX110 which come with 13GB HDs. I have found out that I cannot do this using disk administrator as it will not let you hide the boot partition. I have partition magic if required.

more people say vista sucks big time...
changed the boot order to CD, Disk, Nothing boot other device enabled -> disabled full screen logo enabled ->disabled fdc controller enabled -> disabled (no floppy in .... SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Early unpacking initramfs... done Freeing initrd memory: 499k freed CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core

Bachelor Degree Low Cost
I have a dual boot with Win98 and WinXP, each in its own partition. There is no communication between the two and no conflicts, and no third party boot manager was required. There is no way for WinXP to use applications installed in Win98, or Win98 to use applications installed in WinXP. I still don't understand

Partition Placement & Sizes for Dual-Boot
I contacted compaq and said they would send a CD with all the required drivers on it for only $10.00. Well I got the CD but once again they would only install to C:, .... 2) Create a Windows 2000 boot floppy. Format a floppy under Windows 2000 (important) then copy the files NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, BOOT.