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Installing WinNT 4.0 and W2K on the same machine...
Joe Morris jcmor...@mwunix.mitre.org comp os ms-windows misc zwei...@julian.uwo.ca (ka zweigle) writes: I am about to install windows 95 final Beta on my PC. I am running the OS/2 boot manager so I can run Linux. I have heard rumours that Windows 95 will cause major damage to my hard drive if I am using the os/2

installing Win 95B on NT Server machine
If you want to switch to Windows NT, choose NTFS. If you want to work in both operating systems and share data between them, use FAT16. Does Windows NT 4 include a boot manager? If so, how do you set it up? NT 4.0 includes a simple self-configuring boot manager. It requires the C: partition to be either FAT16 or

Boot manager, XP and Xandros
I'm trying to install System Commander 7 to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 98SE. I've already purchased it and I don't want to waste $60. If by "disk manager" you really mean a drive overlay, then my GUESS as to the answer to your original questions would be: Is there a way to remove the disk manager?

Want FAT16 & FAT32 Partitions
Don d.burne...@clothes.comcast.net microsoft public windows 64bit general Thanks Lance, I just got back in from having to run and take care of something That is one amongst many reasons that experienced users prefer to use bios option than Vista boot manager. As you can see from my pic, BCD store only shows

: Does Windows 95 have a bootmanager ?
Listen to this: After you apply this fix, when you install Windows 2000 over an existing OS/2 computer with Boot Manager, the OS/2 Boot Manager partition is After this, if the OS/2 boot manager partition is ever set as the active partition, the Windows 2000 Boot.ini file must be updated to include the OS/2 Boot

Windows 95 and the os/2 boot manager?
I am not pro IT guy, just a fellow who seems to normally be able to troubleshoot issues in the past with Windows but this has me stumped! Last week upon starting my computer I got a screen that says: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

Phantom Recovery Console in Windows Boot Manager
FDISK, add the Boot Manager partition. Create one dummy primary partition, label it in the menu for Win9x. Create the second partition for HPFS. Save, reboot using Win9x boot disk. Kill the dummy partition, repartition to FAT32 using Windows' FDISK, then set the active flag to that primary partition.

reinstalling an "oem" Vista from disk
Sure was I formatted the partition where Vista was installed :-) Here's the boot.ini. ; ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating Microsoft has given Vista a new completely different boot manager, and from my initial reading and research my first impression is that I don't like it one bit!

Windows Boot Manager issue
Communikator a...@b.com microsoft public windows vista general Hi there, You could boot from the Windows DVD and Repair the computer-->Startup repair. You could also try the EasyBCD tool of NeoSmart, that can restore and modify boot sectors; maybe it's something that it can repair, but you must run it from inside a

Windows bootmanager
When you have your chance to pick the install drive, and FDISK pops up, install boot manager, create a primary partition where DOS and Win95 will reside. Create a logical drive for OS/2 to be installed into. Put the DOS partition on the Boot Manager menu while you're there. 2: install DOS (and Windows 3.1 if you

Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP
"Darrell Gorter[MSFT]" Darre...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hello, Boot back to the repair screens on the dvd Go to the email.net> wrote: You need to make sure the partition that you are trying to install the boot manager on is marked active and a primary partition.

OS/2 boot manager & Windows 2000
... and have successfully installed windows nt on one of my logical drive (G), after reboot, the NT's boot manager appeared and i choose windows 95 as the selected OS. and continued to load windows 95, then everything went fine as usual. however, the next time i tried to boot up, the windows NT's boot manager

Hiding Bootmanager partition from windows
We order the machines without operating systems and get our Windows licenses from M$ directly. Installation goes fine on intelliStations, no hanging or hickups... do you repartition the hard disk & install Boot Manager then OS/2 to an extended logical partition ? No, we donīt use OS/2 anymore since we have no

NT's boot manager unable to work.
Bernard North bernardno...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Dear All, I was stupid enough to switch my computer off while it was updating windows and now I get the windows boot manager on start up telling me I have a problem. I know I need to reinstall from disk.

Seeking boot manager
due2...@atlantic.net comp os os2 setup misc comp os os2 setup storage Stan Koper wrote: I understand that installing Windows 2000 SP1 will kill boot manager. Is that so, and is there a way to avoid it? I'm currently running windows 98SE on a 26 gig hard drive (drive 0), and OS/2 on a 6 gig hard drive (drive 1),

Resolved, and lessons learned (Re: 1024 cylinder boot limit in MCP)
Which Partition/Boot manager is the best?? I need to rebuild my hard drive. I am primarily a Windows user but want to build a triple boot system and include a version of Linux. So, I think that I am looking for a Windows-focused product that will also support Linux. This is for a home system so I want to keep cost

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Bill George Kampouris wrote: Just installed Windows 2000 in a separate (hidden c:) partition and as I expected the OS/2 boot manager was disabled (same as in NT) during installation. When, however, I re-activated the boot manager, I found that none of my previous boot partitions were assigned as C: (hidden or not)

Setting up Vista Ultimate 64 bit do dual boot with XP Pro 32 bit
First, I installed Windows 2000. I left 1 cylinder's worth of free space at the beginning of the drive (for Boot Manager, later). Win2K itself went into a 4 GB partition immediately after that. This all went OK. Then I installed Win2K SP1. (BTW, did anybody notice that Windows 2000 actually uses LVM technology of

Boot Manager & Windows 2000
Now reboot and reinstall boot manager. Now the system should not lose BM every time you boot w2k This solution work on my P133 with OS/2 W4, W2k (italian), Linux and my PIII with W2k (italian), W98SE, OS/2 W4 I'm sorry for my english... Does anyone have both copies of this and a good disassembler program.

"Phantom" Recovery Console option in Windows Boot Manager
TXT on Setup Disk 1 or the Windows CD-ROM. OS/2 Setup will not run on OS/2. You need to boot to MS-DOS and run Setup from the MS-DOS prompt. NOTE: If you are upgrading over OS/2 on an HPFS partition, you will need to have your OS/2 disk 1 available during Setup. If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager to choose