> > I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm > going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95, > of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version' > of win98 and a windows 98 startup disk. > > The computer has a 4.6hd master and a 2.1hd slaved to it. I would like > to make it a dual boot machine using linux on the 4.6 drive and windoze > on the 2.1 drive.
windoze needs a primary partition marked as active/bootable (dos fdisk/cfdisk) to boot. all partitions that contain a file system other than fat whatever are hidden from windows so it takes the first bootable primary partition it finds as c: hth martin
