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To: Spots who wrote (4207)	12/14/1998 12:48:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Spots, Whats wrong with Dos 7.0??? I use it to flash bioses and lots of other things and never had problem where something worked in 6.22 but didn't work in 7.0 or 7.1. Sean

To: Spots who wrote (4207)	12/14/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: EMorrison	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Hi Spots If I can jump in here. Just thought you would like to know that you could put DOS, Win95/98 & Win NT on the same HD using different partitions...without going to 3rd party software. This can be done a couple of ways. 1. You can install Dos (C drive)then install Win95/98, which will require you to do the f8 and select previous Dos version to boot into real Dos. Then you can install NT. You would have to select the different drives on which to install the different OS's during the setup process. 2. You can install DOS (c drive) then install NT. You then install Win 95/98. Before you do, you would need to rename your bootsect.dos to something like boosect.bak. Install Win 95/98 rename the new bootsect.dos to boosect.w40 and rename bootsect.bak to bootsect.dos. Then you modify the boot.ini to show the correct arc path for the Win95/98 partition. This is desireable to me because it will eliminate the f8 steps to boot into Dos. This is for an x86 processor only. FYI Microsoft will not support triple boot setups, but I have used this setup without a problem. Here is how TechNet tells you to do it: " 1. Install MS-DOS 2. Install Windows NT 3. Remove the read-only, hidden, and system attributes of Bootsect.dos by typing and running the following line from the command prompt: attrib -r -h -s bootsect.dos 4. Copy the boot sector for MS-DOS by typing and running the following line from the command prompt: copy c:\bootsect.dos c:\bootsect.sav 5. Boot to MS-DOS and install Windows 95. 6. Repair the Windows NT boot sector as Windows 95 has over-written the boot sector. This will also create a new Bootsect.dos for Windows 95. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: Q104429 TITLE : Installing MS-DOS Version 6.2x After Windows NT is Installed 7. Remove the read-only, hidden, and system attributes from the Windows 95 Bootsect.dos by typing and running the following line from the command prompt: attrib -r -h -s bootsect.dos 8. Rename the Windows 95 boot sector from c:\bootsect.dos to c:\bootsect.w40. 9. Rename the MS-DOS boot sector from c:\bootsect.sav to c:\bootsect.dos. 10. Remove the read-only attribute from boot.ini by typing and running the following line from the command prompt: attrib -r boot.ini 11. Modify Boot.ini using any text editor, such as Edit or Notepad, by adding the following lines: [Operating Systems] c:\bootsect.dos="MS-DOS v6.22" /win95dos c:\bootsect.w40="Windows 95" /win95 You should now see the additional choices of "Windows 95" and "MS-DOS v6.22" when you start Windows NT. The new switches, /win95dos and /win95, are needed so that Windows NT can emulate the multiple boot process of Windows 95. This article contains information about using Windows NT with a configuration that has not been tested and is not supported by Microsoft. If the steps described in this article do not function properly, use a supported configuration. If Windows NT is going to be on the same partitions as MS-DOS and/or Windows 95, the partition must be an MS-DOS partition. Windows 95 FAT 32 partitions will not work with MS-DOS and Windows NT. Using NTFS or FAT32 partitions will require different partitions for each operation system. The ARC path in the Boot.ini file will need to be modified to reflect the different partitions." Ed

To: Spots who wrote (4207)	12/14/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Spots I received a reply from Minotaur (concerning installing DOS on the second drive prior to installing NT on the primary drive) as follows: Im assuming you plan to install W98 -- Yes, 98/etc has to be installed first prior to NT. I will setup a dos partition (but not install the OS) so NT would atleast recognize it. Before I say OK iwanted to check with you. Will just the dos partition without the OS qualify as far as NT setting up a dual boot when I do install dos into the partition? I don't really know what he means by setup a dos partition (but not install the OS) But if it will work I've not got a problem. Clarence

To: Spots who wrote (4207)	12/14/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Somebody wanted to know what version of dos comes with Windows98 (the OS formerly knows as DOS) ... well I just tripped over it: Dos version 7.10 Windows version 3.95. Windows95 (an older OS formerly known as DOS) shows Dosver as 7.0 and Windows version ALSO as 3.95. Both above items of trivia from "System Information" from Tradestation help screens. Other than that I don't understand, don't ask me... Spots, fwiw, if I boot to "D" via the BH6 Bios, it comes up as "C". No bios combo is available that puts a floppy drive ahead of D. No idea why - I got impatient and swapped the IDE cables and mooted the point. Paul