Hi
23 Dec 2000, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> One of the major problems I have in trying to accomplish very
SH> meaningful and important tasks with a machine running Windows 95 and
SH> above is that the machine doesn't behave very well with the version of
SH> DOS that is installed into Windows 95.
?? what does 'does not behave very well mean ??
I'm using the DOSes from both versions, and have not noticed any bad
behaviour in years.
SH> Given a machine with Windows 95 installed on a hard drive having a
SH> FAT 16 partition, and the partition's size not being too big to be
SH> recognized by your favorite DOS version,
if it is fat16, than the partition size can't be too big ...
win95/98 IS dos, so there can't be a partition size which windows
'understands' and dos not.
(it's the same with fat32, but you need a special DOS which understands it)
SH> would it be OK to boot to a floppy being a DOS system disk, and then
SH> fix the hard drive's operating system simply by doing "A>sys C:"
SH> Theoretically, that should fix it.
I don't understand the term 'to fix' here ...
This will boot the other version from dos the next time.
SH> would I not easily be able to restore my original Windows 95
SH> installation simply by re-booting to a Windows 95 system disk floppy
SH> and then using the SYS command again to transfer the operating system
SH> files back to the hard drive?
yes .... but this is the absolutely hardest way to achieve this.
1.) if you have a M$-DOS installed prior to installing windows 9x, than you
can boot to this by the f8 startmenu
2.) drdos has a bootmanager (ie if you install drdos to a windows
partition, you can choos which os to boot)
[some drdos guru sure can tell you more about that)
3.) you could make a new partition for your old dos, and use a bootmanager
to choose from which partition to boot.
SH> Has anyone ever tried this?
sure
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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