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Conference noted::windows95

Title:Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:EEMELI::BACKSTROM
Created:Sun Nov 13 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2958
Total number of notes:19968

683.0. "Dual Boot ( Windows NT and Windows 95 )" by NOTAPC::RIOPELLE () Mon Aug 14 1995 17:47

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683.1YupZENDIA::MCARLETONHappy-Happy-Happy Joy-Joy-JoyTue Aug 15 1995 00:151
683.2common root for dual booted config?SEND::CARDIMINOTue Aug 15 1995 21:275
683.3W95 won't install over common Windows/NT rootSMURF::t1p3.zko.dec.com::pbeckPaul Beck, ALPHA::pbeckTue Aug 15 1995 23:0515
683.4Copy \windows to \win95JRFVAX::FRANDSENI'm back to livin' FloridaysWed Aug 16 1995 11:428
683.5Dual-boot documentation?SWAM1::BARNETTE_NEThe best things on-line are freeFri Oct 20 1995 19:3710
683.6Just install W/NT to the second diskVAOU09::vaop07::FBROWNFred Brown, NT WizardFri Oct 20 1995 20:5410
683.7How do you choose which o/s to boot?SWAM1::BARNETTE_NEThe best things on-line are freeFri Oct 20 1995 21:017
683.8BOOT.INI from the *NT* systemRANGER::COOKJust Do It!Mon Oct 23 1995 13:5621
683.9Good stuff - too bad it's not in my NT book!SWAM1::BARNETTE_NEThe best things on-line are freeFri Oct 27 1995 14:3010
683.10need dos for win95EDSCLU::NICHOLSSat Oct 28 1995 13:1421
683.11DRIVESPACEing a DUAL Boot SystemABBOTT::chord.zko.dec.com::youngTue Oct 31 1995 11:4816
683.12NOVA05::BERGERTue Oct 31 1995 13:504
683.13It worked fineABBOTT::chord.zko.dec.com::youngWed Nov 01 1995 10:2013
683.14More dual boot problemsMPGS::LAVINTue Nov 28 1995 14:5112
683.15random thoughts...EDSCLU::NICHOLSTue Nov 28 1995 15:2412
683.16Is that it?MPGS::LAVINTue Nov 28 1995 16:2721
683.17ICS::BEANAttila the Hun was a LIBERAL!Tue Nov 28 1995 21:175
683.18My upgrade worked very nicely; left NT intactCUSTOM::HULLSystems Integration [Delivery]/MotownThu Nov 30 1995 14:0316
683.19BAHTAT::HILTONhttp://blyth.lzo.dec.comFri Dec 01 1995 06:296
683.20REDDWF::GIFFORDThe chickens are restless!Sun Dec 03 1995 16:5511
683.21I like to restor the NT Flex BootJURA::SYSTEMSPACE System Manager group...Thu Feb 08 1996 11:5011
683.22I can only run one or the other!ZPOVC::TALEGHANIBardia TaleghaniSat Feb 15 1997 00:4327
    Hello,
    
    I have tried to turn my PC to a dual boot machine running Windows 95 &
    Windows NT V 3.51 with no luck.  
    
    I have one physical disk partitioned to two FAT logical drives C & D. 
    I started with installing  Windows NT on C.  Next I installed Windows
    95 on Drive D.  However, after powering up the machine unlike some of
    the notes described here, I was not automatically given a menu to
    choose operating systems and by default Win 95 was booted.  
    
    Figuring the problem could be that I installed NT first & then 95, I
    formatted C & reinstalled NT thinking this would make it just work. 
    After power up although I got the boot menu but there was no mention of 
    Win 95.  I even tried to manually edit boot.ini and add the following 
    line D:\="Windows 95".  However, choosing this option from the menu it
    gives a trap fault.
    
    I suspect that since the CDs that I am installing from are not upgrade
    CDs they are not designed to coexist & detect others operating systems. 
    Any ideas?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Bardia. 
    
    
683.23TARKIN::LINBill LinSat Feb 15 1997 09:2612
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Note 3889.8                dual boot Win NT and Win95                     8 of 8
TARKIN::LIN "Bill Lin"                                6 lines  15-FEB-1997 06:26
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    re: .7 by ZPOVC::TALEGHANI
    
    Do it the proper way.  Install Windows 95 first (cleanly), then install
    Windows NT.
    
    /Bill
683.24ELIS01::TOWERSMon Feb 17 1997 03:064
    Alternatively, install DOS 6.x, NT and then 95.
    
    Cheers,
    Brian
683.25BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurMon Feb 17 1997 04:001
    re .24: The way in .23 is easier.
683.26Win95 on C: and NT on D:POWDML::HUSTONJeff HustonMon Feb 17 1997 14:119
    re .22
    
    I did things just the way you did except I built NT first on the D:
    partition and added Win95 on C: afterward.  And it worked.  I remember 
    reading somewhere that Win95 liked to be on C:.
    
    Good Luck,
    
    Jeff
683.27TALLIS::NELSONIt&#039;s not the years it&#039;s the mileage!Tue Feb 18 1997 09:5017
    I had DOS 6.2/Win 3.1 installed on C, then installed NT on C as well.
    When I installed Win95, I put it on D, and the Win95 installation
    automatically modified BOOT.INI such that NT and Win95 were my two
    choices.  I tried like heck to make DOS 6.2 another choice from within
    the NT boot loader, but finally gave up and just used the dual-boot
    feature of Win95.  For the number of times I need 3.1, it's okay.


    In order for your D:\="Windows 95" to work, you need the BOOTSECT.DOS
    file that should have been created by the Win95 installation to reside
    on D:.  Check out note 2472.5 for some good web sites on understanding
    this whole morass MS has created.


    Brian