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by orosas

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Can you create a Dual boot with Windows 95 OS and Windows NT Workstation 4.0?. If yes how can i set this up?. What other OS can you create Dual boot.

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by syscokid

This page has links to dual booting between all flavors of Windows:

http://www.worldowindows.com/dualboot-main.html

(Sometimes when I cut and paste URL's it looks ok to me but once the answer is posted, an extraneous space will have crept in.Make sure you delete any extraneous spaces or the page won't load).

You can also dual boot (or even triple boot) between Windows and Linux, but I've never done that.

by avachon

hi, it's pretty straight forward to dual boot 95 and nt. Install 95 first, then install NT wkstn. Ntldr will "pick up" the 95 installation and add it to nt's boot.ini file (hidden file on the root C:\). When you boot up you should see a boot selection screen whereby you can choose from eithr ntwkstn or 95. You can dual boot with most operating systems - dos, 9.x, nt, 2000, linux,etc. Also, there are software packages that will guide dual, triple, etc. boot configurations such as partition magicand server magic - specs available at http://www.powerquest.com
Let me know if I can help you further.

by avachon

BTW- when you dual boot with 95 and nt, The C:\ drive has to formatted FAT. NT will not read FAT32 (if running osr2 for 95). And 95 cannot access ntfs. You could, however, put 95 on C:\, then load ntwkstn (its boot files will be on C:\) on D:\ for example. If you converted the D:\ drive to ntfs, which you can, just recognize that 95 can't access it. Microsoft also recommends that you install applications twice - once for 95 and once for NT.

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