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Re: reinstall windows?



> 
> 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



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