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by cyberace 1 view

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I am supposed to configure several pcs to run on dual boot - Win95 and Dos 6.22/Win3.11 which is not that difficult.

The problem is this:

Everything is fine when i partition the harddisk - 2 primary dos + 1 extended dos.
Unfortunately, whenever i load a boot manager, two harddisk appeared when i only have one. What i meant was, when i boot in Win95, i saw drive c,d,e and f. Drive d is an identical image of c and f is and identical image of e. Whatever i installed on drive c will appear on drive d but in Win95 mode, drive d slows down the system tremendously. The same applied when i boot dos 6.22 also.
I tried changing the boot manager, but the same happen again and again and again. The worst thing is - after running the boot manager, i tried to run fdisk and fdisk showed 2 harddisk with 2GB when i only have 1 HD with 2GB. And i am running out of time. The 84 pcs must be up and running by this 22nd August. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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by mlsnead

This is not a complete solution but hopefully some insight to the answer. One thing is that you shouldn't be partitioning the drive with 2 primaries and 1 extended. I actually didn't even think that something like FDISK would let you do that. Youshould be partitioning it with 1 primary, and 1 extended (you then need to create a logical within the extended for the second partition to show). Make the primary partition the 'active' partition if it isn't already. As for dual booting with the boot manager. You should just be able to install Dos 6.22, install win95 over top of it and then you should be able to hit F8 and the last option should be "Boot to previous verion of MS-DOS." You then have dos 6.22 loaded. I dont think windows 98and above let you do this anymore though.

Hopefully this helps.
-Matt Snead

by sd99

Yes it's true you only need one primary partition and you don't need a boot manager,Windows 95 supports dual boot with Dos6.22\Win3.11 but when installing 95 you have to install in a different directory (I use C:\Win95)other than the default (C:\Windows)otherwise you will lose 3.11.You also have to edit MSDOS.SYS,under the [options] heading set "BootMulti=1" and if you enter the following "Bootmenu=1" you won't have to hit F8 to get the boot option screen,it will come up automatically.

by cyberace

I need to install and be able to run Win3.11 softwares such as MS Office 4. Furthermore, your solutions requires me need to get multiple copies and license of Win95 upgrade version which my client doesn't have and is too expensive.

by cyberace

ps: i need to be able to boot win95 and win3.11 - and i also need to install MS Office for both Win95 and Win3.11

by dmiles

There is no need to have multiple primary partitions and each partition wiil show up as a hrd disk in the extended logical state.
Using FDISK-Select the size for each partition,using fat file system,after you complete partitioning and creating the primary partitionand then you will be able to set select the active partition.Each partition will be assigned a drive letter,which look like you have multiple hard drives,only in the logical sense,they are not in the physical atate.

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