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Trouble going Win 95 to NT 4.0 1
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Your Windows 95 partition is formatted to FAT32. Windows NT cannot read FAT32 partitions (although I believe that there are 3rd-party utilities that allow this).
The best solution is to repartition the drive, assuming there is enough space, into 2 or 3 partitions:
Partition 1: FAT 16. Run fdisk, and do NOT enable large hard drive support. NT will handle its own partition, so don't worry about losing drive space - you won't. Make this a small partition, 300 Mb is ample, more if you like.
Partition 2: FAT 32 (if desired. Remember that NT cannot read FAT 32 partitions.)Run fidsk and enable large hard drive support.
Partition 3: Do not create.
Install Windows 95 to the 2nd partition.
Install NT, and allow it to create its own partition in the remaining unpartitioned space. If you format this partition NTFS, Windows 95 will not be able to access it (again, there are 3rd-party utilities to get around this, but I generally do not use them.).
You should find this creates a perfectly useable dual-booting system, although you will need to install each application twice, once for each operating system.
There are more elegant ways of doing this, but the way I have described is the easiest and most likely to produce a successful result with little effort.
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The best solution is to repartition the drive, assuming there is enough space, into 2 or 3 partitions:
Partition 1: FAT 16. Run fdisk, and do NOT enable large hard drive support. NT will handle its own partition, so don't worry about losing drive space - you won't. Make this a small partition, 300 Mb is ample, more if you like.
Partition 2: FAT 32 (if desired. Remember that NT cannot read FAT 32 partitions.)Run fidsk and enable large hard drive support.
Partition 3: Do not create.
Install Windows 95 to the 2nd partition.
Install NT, and allow it to create its own partition in the remaining unpartitioned space. If you format this partition NTFS, Windows 95 will not be able to access it (again, there are 3rd-party utilities to get around this, but I generally do not use them.).
You should find this creates a perfectly useable dual-booting system, although you will need to install each application twice, once for each operating system.
There are more elegant ways of doing this, but the way I have described is the easiest and most likely to produce a successful result with little effort.
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