I'll post here first but maybe somewhere else would be better, who knows.

I have a machine with one, 8GB FAT32 drive (Primary Master with a CD-ROM as Primary Slave) and Win95B installed, running smoothly, and a second 1.6 GB drive FAT (Secondary Master) that I'd like to put WinNT 4.0 on and dual boot.

I had this setup before (95 & NT) on one drive using a 1600 MB FAT for the 2 OS's to load from. I need it on completely separate drives though and can't figure why, even though the "D" drive is formatted FAT and clean, I can't get the NT install past the point of telling me that the drive partition "D" won't allow for the install. I tried it as NTFS too but really would rather have it as a standard FAT partition.

Has anyone out there tried, or has running, a dual boot with two entirely separate drives on the same machine? Is it even possible? I tried all manner of searches and nothing says "Yes, you can use 2 separate drives."

"C" FAT32 Primary / Active
"D" FAT Primary / Active

I've set them up this way with Partition Magic, Ver 6.0 and when, after numerous attempts, couldn't get it to install used FDISK and FORMAT to try it and still got the same message at the "Install to What Partition" point, highlight it, press enter and the partitions not recognized as a proper blah blah blah.

Thanks, even if the news is that I can't do what I want at least I'll know.

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