Re: Multi boot Windows 95/XP

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Further observation: If the OP's WinXP installation resides on
a FAT32 partition then his Win95 installation on the second
disk will appear on drive D:. Since it was born in a different
machine, presumably on drive C:, its registry is still full of
references to drive C:, which would make a very unhappy
installation.


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Boot the system with the WinXP CD and load the Recovery Console by hitting
"r" when first prompted. From the prompt, run fixboot c:. Then, run
bootcfg
/add to add the Win95 installation to the WinXP boot prompt.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"WAW" <al@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a computer that shipped with Windows XP Home. I need to run a DOS
that runs fine in DOS command mode of Windows 95 (it runs with cmd of XP
but excruciatingly slowly). I installed a drive with Windows 95 as C and
Windows XP as D. I've read multiple KB articles on how to do this but
they
all seem vague as to how you actually get this to work. I've done it
before with partitioned hard drives but not with two drives, although the
articles seem to imply that this can be done. I've tried physically
manipulating msdos.sys on the C drive and creating a boot.ini on the C
drive but neither seems to help. I gather that I need to boot the xp
drive
and go to startup set up but how do I get the d drive to boot?
Thanks,






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