I had windows running on a secondary disk... it's been a while but i'm sure
about the following, if you want to reinstall windows, you'll have to put it
on your 'primary' drive... it won't install on a secondary drive. this can
be done easily by disabling your primary drive in your BIOS... if this
works, you can change things in your BIOS again and boot your windows with
linux from your secondary disk. if this works, it will always put the
partition on which it resides as the C-drive.. then your primary partition
(if you have one) will be D-drive, then comes the partition contained in
secondary partition...
hope this helps,
Piwi
>
>After having my computer window free for two years I found out that I
>wanted
>
>to make use of windows on a very restricted way. A friend has installed me
>Windows 95 on a new hard disk in my holiday and as I returned at least
>windows worked fine. As my original disk was not involved in the
>installation (I had it at home ;-)) I switched the Windows drive to the
>secondary position and my original drive in first position.
>Boot up as usual with a lot of text but after Lilo (which gives me the
>possibility to work with linux) informed me "cannot load dos
>press key to retry". A retry gave the same info.
>Starting Linux gave no problem at all. After changing the startup in the
>CMOS to bootup D,A,SCSI it ran windows without hesitation renaming the d
>drive into C and going back to DOS gave me the C drive as D drive. Looking
>into the autoexec and config I could not discover any problems. Also the
>DRdos sys files were there and seemed ok.
>Before I reinstall everything I would like to know if I can have DrDOS,
>Linux and Windows on my two drives. Can I start in Drdos and start
>windows from there and what do I have to do in order to achieve above? I
>would prefer to have my Dos programs on the C drive but I have the feeling
>that windows wants to have that C drive also.
>IneedsignificantlymoreroominthislineforwhatIwanttosayhere
>
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