MS-DOS installation?

[Guest]

Ok. I went out and purchased Partition Magic 6.0 today. I've come upon several problems, though. The partitioning went fine. I've now got C:\ and D:\ on my harddrive. C is my NTFS Windows 2000 file system with my operating system and everything else. D is a partition that is formatted to the FAT file system. What I now want to do is be able to have the option to boot from either DOS or Windows 2000 upon power up. The only problem is I don't know how to install MS-DOS 6.22 or higher upon my D portion. I've purchased Windows98 and have the cd, but not sure if I can install it from that. Could I even maybe install it from my MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk? I've tried just copying my files from the boot disk to the D partition, but whenever I try to boot from that partition without the boot disk I get a disk error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Crashman]

If your only using dos on that partition, why not boot from a boot floppy, using an Autoexec.bat command to refer to d:\?

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[DSutcliffe]

I'm afraid you might find it a bit hard to boot to DOS or W2K with the setup you are using. PM6.0 comes with Boot Magic which can be installed, if it is like PM5.0, only to a FAT or FAT32 partition. However it is a Windows only solution.

All that stuff comes into effect only after you actually find the DOS 6.22 installlation disks, good luck with that.

If I was doing what you are trying to do, here is the plan I would follow:

PM6.0, create 2GB FAT partition as partition 0.
PM6.0, create 5GB+ NTFS partition as partition 1.
Install DOS 6.22 to partition 0.
Install W2K to partition 1.

W2K will create a boot menu to choose DOS or W2K.

The important thing to remember is that you cannot install WinNT or Win2K to a second partition if it past 2GB into the drive. Once you work around that fact all should be well.

If you have any questions, you can message me as I have had quite a bit of experience multi-booting machines with Windows operating systems.

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[Crashman]

Hey, that sounds like a great idea, I might even try that one myself. Glad to see someone else is awake out there!

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