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2 Operating Systems on one PC

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4godsake

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Nov 15, 2001
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Ok, I would like to have (if possible) Windows 95 on one hard disk and Windows 2000 on another, both working on the same PC.
I'm currently running Windows 2000 on a 41GB hard disk and have just installed a second 4GB hard disk and want to install Windows 95 on it.
1st question....... Is this possible?

If it is, how do I do it?
The Windows 95 CD is not bootable, and for some reason my Windows 95 boot disk, is not booting.
2nd question...... Anybody know where I can get a Windows 95 boot disk that installs the CD drivers.

So the next thing I tried was to boot up using a Dos 6 disk, F3 out of the setup to give me a DOS prompt, but then I am unable to connect to the CD.
3rd question...... Do I have to install Dos onto the smaller hard disk first, and then run the setup from the CD?

I hope all this makes sense
 
The order of install has to be:

Windows 95 first.
Windows 2000 second.

Windows 2000 has a boot manager to detect 2 operating systems, Windows 95 does not.

reghakr
 
Unfortunately for you, reghakr is exactly right. You'll need to install Win95 on a formatted hard drive first, then install Win2K. Win2K will detect Win 95 and set up the boot options automatically for you.
 
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