Dual Boot & reinstallation

[Dr. Yehuda Raveh]

Hello
I use win97 (OSR-2) & NT4 in dual Boot. Can I re-install win95/97 without
losing the boot manager and the dual boot option?
Yehuda Raveh
ra...@ibm.net

[Tristan Gulyas (Cyber Demon)]

Dr. Yehuda Raveh <ra...@ibm.net> wrote in article
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First of all Win97 is not OSR-2. Call OSR-2 Win96 if you like, but Win97
has support for the Universal Serial Bus and The Windows Driver Model. If
you use OSR-2 and NT 4.0, I would say that you are not using FAT32. Make
an emergency repair disk under NT _BEFORE_ you reinstall Win95, when use
the NT Instal disks to replace the OS Loader.

[Dr. Yehuda Raveh]

Thanks Tristan for your help!
Indeed I don't use fat32 (I did not know how to format my osr2 disk to
fat32 before installation). But I am curious to know how you knew that I
don't use different logical drives for the 2 OS. Isn't nt 4.0 compatible
with fat32?
How do I make this repair disk. And how exactly and when should I use it?
THANKS!
Yehuda Raveh
ra...@ibm.net

Tristan Gulyas (Cyber Demon) <Tris...@Melbpc.Org.AU> wrote in article
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[Tristan Gulyas (Cyber Demon)]

> Thanks Tristan for your help!
> Indeed I don't use fat32 (I did not know how to format my osr2 disk to
> fat32 before installation). But I am curious to know how you knew that I
> don't use different logical drives for the 2 OS. Isn't nt 4.0 compatible
> with fat32?
> How do I make this repair disk. And how exactly and when should I use it?
> THANKS!

First of all, you have to delete and re-create the partition using large
disk support when FDISK prompts you. Then you can format the drive
normally.

Windows NT 4.0, although it could store it's data on a logical NTFS or
FAT16 partition, the OS Loader is stored on the boot drive, so NT can't be
booted (although I haven't had a chance to test this). NT 4.0 cannot access
fat32.

To make the repair disk, jsut type rdisk.exe at the command prompt.