Herbie
November 28th, 1998, 02:45 PM
Thought I'd share my experience of installing NT with a FAT 32 version of Windows 95.
I had a machine with two HD's a 5.1 GB that I use as my main drive, and my old 540MB piece from my last PC.
So the 5.1GB was FAT32'd and the 540MB was still FAT16.
To Install NT, I disconnected the 5.1GB drive and cleared the 540MB for the new OS, once installed I made the large drive the slave and the small one the master, the opposite of what it had been.
Thius whne the machine boots it loads NT, of course you can't see the FAT32 drive but it doesn't interfere with NT.
To run Win95 just go into the BIOS setup and select boot from D. Then Win95 loads from the large drive, but assumes the large drive is still C, and makes the small drive D again, thus no repartioning is needed and if you want to transfer files from one OS to the other you can as long as you use Win(% and copy it to the D drive.
Just a little BIOS quirk I thought I'd share.
I had a machine with two HD's a 5.1 GB that I use as my main drive, and my old 540MB piece from my last PC.
So the 5.1GB was FAT32'd and the 540MB was still FAT16.
To Install NT, I disconnected the 5.1GB drive and cleared the 540MB for the new OS, once installed I made the large drive the slave and the small one the master, the opposite of what it had been.
Thius whne the machine boots it loads NT, of course you can't see the FAT32 drive but it doesn't interfere with NT.
To run Win95 just go into the BIOS setup and select boot from D. Then Win95 loads from the large drive, but assumes the large drive is still C, and makes the small drive D again, thus no repartioning is needed and if you want to transfer files from one OS to the other you can as long as you use Win(% and copy it to the D drive.
Just a little BIOS quirk I thought I'd share.