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Dual boot - remove one OS.
Where did you get those boot.ini files? Please explain "drives", do you have two physical hard disks or do you have 2 partitions on one hard disk? What caused you to lose dual booting abilties? Did you reinstall one of the operating systems before this started? Which operating system can you now boot to?

Dual Boot Again
... 2(D2) = D: D1 is XP pro and D2 is W2K I no longer have the dual boot option and I wonder which boot.ini file is correct so I can have dual boot back. D1 boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft

Dual Boot Again
It is my understanding that you need two harddrives in order to accomplish dual boot in solaris. This is fine since I have a 20GB and a 40GB hd on the machine. I am not completely sure which partitions I can share and which ones I can't. In addition, I am affraid of running out of space(or wasting space) a

Win98/WinNT dual boot problems...
If so, do I need a separate partition? How ->big? -> ->I am inclined to think that my best option is to boot ->from a floppy disk and use the DOS subdirectory on my ->OS/2 HD. Agree? Now I'm confused! Dual Boot is the term used to describe a method of installing OS/2 so that it resides on the same C: drive as your

How make bigger partition then 2048 gb in dual boot win98 and ...
My HDD is divided into 4 partitions. I dual boot W2K and XP Pro. (W2K was installed first) the strange problem is this: In W2K the 4 partitions are seen as this: C - Windows 2000 D - Windows XP E - Data and F - pagefile. In XP Pro however, the partitions are seen as this: C - Windows 2000, D - Windows XP,

dual boot
I now have a new (second) HD (160 GB) and both Win XP Pro and Partition Magic 8.0 with which I would like to create a dual boot setup. I installed Partition Magic and started to run the "Install another operating system" wizard but was not satisfied when it would only want to install XP on Disk 1.

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows 64bit general If you run VBP from the XP partition the way you have changed boot priority 'on the fly', The registry edits in the procedure I gave in the attachment allows you to use the computer in a normal dual boot setup without risking anything in Vista

How to move dual boot partitions?
Doug Knox MS-MVP dk...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support If you had the Me partition hidden when you installed XP, XP did not see it, or if you had the NTFS partition marked active then XP may not have seen the Me installation. To do a dual boot setup, make both partitions visible,

Dual booting and partitioning
Patrick Riley p_ri...@pipeline.com alt comp hardware Jim <n...@null.com> wrote: Could you provide more detail on EXACTLY how your old HDD was configured, esp. for dual-boot? Primary partition (active) C about 900 meg Extended partition: D, E, F, G (about 900 meg each except for G which was the difference between (C

Can I do this?
W95 wasn't designed for dual booting. It was designed to take possession of your machine - all of it. You would learn a lot by trying to dual boot with for instance DOS 6.x and W95 - I mean dual boot, not putting W95 in DOS command mode.. If I'm not mistaken W95 will only boot from a primary partition on your first

Dual Boot with Win98 and Partition Magic 4.0?
Tom Porterfield tppor...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsme setup ME will upgrade a previous 9x installation if it finds one, so the dual boot on the same partition is not possible. You can do what you want with the utilities at hand. Use PM to create a new primary DOS partition for ME. Hide your 98 partition and

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I've never done a single drive, dual boot config. On my box I have 2 HDs and use a floppy boot lilo disk ('cause I'ma coward!!) What I really need is a good tutorial on boot loaders. I understand how the MBR works.... never understood how a /boot partition works. Anyway, any help here is appreciated.

Dual boot system won't boot in MSDOS after HD install
Some things are different, though: Microsoft Management Console now recognizes the Vista partition as the Active one, and as pretty much everything else. XP is merely a primary partition. And I'd turned off the dual-boot feature; it's back on again. I feel like I'm back in the same boat I was in before, though.

Dual boot system Win98 - Win NT4
I copy my entire C: drive onto another partition and if ever I run into trouble that warrants a clean install of windows, I just format the partition and copy the data back. Based on this logic, why can I not set up a dual boot system this way? I would throw in a blank HD into my PC and then install XP to it.

Dual boot Win95 (FAT 32) and NT
1) Does a recovery reinstallation of 98 qualify for upgrade? ...you must be careful not to format the boot partition (although WinXP may be installed on any drive, the boot files will still be housed on the boot partition... 2) Can I reformat the hard drive to be one XP volume only, after a dual-boot setup (no

Basic dual boot questions
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:34:09 -0700, "Bruce Chambers" <bcham...@micron.net> wrote: Greetings -- The simplest way to dual boot between Win9x and WinNT would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows: C: > 512 Mb FAT16 Boot Files & Data Transfer D: FAT32 Win9x/Games E: NTFS WinNT/Serious Apps Adjust the

Niubbo e Linux Ubuntu7.10 installazione dual boot??
Everything else can go on just about any partition on just about any drive in your computer. System files, of course, are only ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini and, if you're dual-booting, bootsect.dos - they total well under a megabyte. RC "Robert Davis" <rda...@lillysoftware.com> wrote in message news:3B140A4D.

Upgrading to W2k - Dual Boot
The registry edits in the procedure I gave in the attachment allows you to use the computer in a normal dual boot setup without risking anything in Vista Drive 1 = XP OS ( 2 partitiions) Drive 2 - XP Data and Apps ( 2 partitions) Drive 3 = Vista ( 2 partitions) Currently, I have my hard disk boot order in bios,

dual boot Menu option XP Vista
S2=win98-l&q=two+partitions+with+ Windows+98&s=&f=&a=2000&b= Here is the URL for the Google Newsgroup page, and you should get quite a few hits by search for keywords such as "dual-boot" "Windows 98 dual-boot," etc." http://groups.google.com There is also a popular boot manager program that some MVP's like.

dual boot
To dual boot between Windows 95/98 and Windows NT it is recommended that two partitions be created and that Windows 95 or Windows 98 be installed first onto the Once installed boot to a MS-DOS prompt or bootable diskette and install Windows 95 onto the other partition. DUAL BOOTING WINDOWS 98 WITH WINDOWS ME