[i have no clue what happened to my last post but it removed the original topic and replaced it with a "time" ?!?!) Anyway, I had originally asked some questions as to how I should go about installing DOS on a hard drive as a dual boot with windows nt or 2000. Someone (eyegore?) had responded and asked me for more info...here it is!


I'm looking to install DOS so I can boot to it if necessary to fix an installation of Windows NT or win2000 on the same HD. I usually carry around a floppy disk with some DOS utils on it (edit.com, ntfs-dos, deltree, delpart, cd-rom drivers etc) so I can boot to the floppy and make changes on my windows installation. I just thought it would be easier if I could install DOS on the hard drive and boot to it, this would remove the need to carry around DOS floppies (I usually have about 2.5 mbs worth of DOS utils which means I end up switching floppies in and out of the disk drive to access a certain utility).

I wasn't aware that DOS couldn't be used to access another OS on the same hard drive because of limitations with the boot manager. Are you sure about this?

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