Re: reinstall windows?
I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm
trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a
driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95
version. Will it work this way?
Martin W?rtele [martin@wuertele.net] wrote:
> >
> > 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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