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LaHo




Joined: Jun 08, 2005
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:35 am
Post subject: How do I setup a dual boot W98SE & W3.1
I have an older Dell Latitude CP laptop that I want to run some old programs in. I have installed a 40Gig harddrive partitioned with fdisk, 38+Gig for Win98SE and 1+Gig for Win3.1. Q1> is it possible? if yes Q2> how is it done?

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LaHo

My apologies, a lack of sleep lead to the wrong requqest. My Question should have been> How do I setup a dual boot W98SE & W3.1?


Last edited by LaHo on Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:11 pm; edited 1 time in total
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drwho07




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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:03 am
Post subject: Re: How do I setup a dual boot W98SE & DOS6.2 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Dual booting with those two OS's is redundant. (not necessary).

Windows 98 will let you shell out to DOS..... no need to boot into it.

Save the hassle and just shell out to dos when you want to work in that OS.

Happy Computing,
Doc
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LaHo




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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:19 pm
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Thanks Doc
My bad... It should have read Win3.1 not DOS6.2 as you have seen in my edit.

LaHo
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zlim




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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:39 am
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Only thread I found http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/11286.html
looks like the person created a folder called Win31 and installed it within 98 and access it through DOS in 98.
I'm completely clueless how you'd do this.
I never ran 3.1, my first gui aka windows was WFWG 3.11 and I've no desire to go back to that.
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goretsky




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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:33 am
Post subject: Re: How do I setup a dual boot W98SE & W3.1 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Hello,

As I recall, Microsoft Windows 3.1 does not recognize FAT32, so having the disk partitioned into two volumes, one formatted with FAT-16 and having Windows 3.1 and the other formatted with FAT32 and containing Microsoft Windows 98SE is correct.

The last time I ran a computer in this configuration I used IBM's Boot Manager (also distributed as PowerQuest Boot Manager with Partition Magic 3.0) to switch between DOS+WfWG 3.11, IBM OS/2 Warp and Microsoft Windows 95. You can probably purchase a copy of Partition Magic 3.0 online (eBay, EMSPS and so forth) fairly inexpensively and use that to choose between the two operating systems at boot time.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
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LaHo




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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:05 am
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Thanks to All
I believe I'm on the right track now. Multiple OS's and all.

LaHo
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