DoS reformat

[Guest]

I have a 2nd drive that has xp on it and I want to put windows 95. How do I
get to my c: drive in DoS I can only get to A: drive with floppy disk.

 

[Guest]

i would not recommend doing that.

For one thing you don't have an idea on
how to do it and it would take several
steps that are involved to reconfigure your
hardware and install a backwards o.s.

Then the next is that you don't have an
idea on how to ensure your system
is maintained, especially since there
is no more support for win95.

 

[DL]

and dont multi post

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have a 2nd drive that has xp on it and I want to put windows 95. How do I
get to my c: drive in DoS I can only get to A: drive with floppy disk.

It's not at all clear what you're actually trying to accomplish. Are
you planning to dual-boot between Win95 and WinXP? It won't be very
easy to do.

The simplest way I've found to dual boot between Win95 and WinXP
would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows:

C: Primary 2Gb FAT16 Win95
D: Extended Remainder NTFS WinXP/Modern Apps

Create the partitions using Win95's FDISK so you can ensure that
the Primary partition is no larger than 2Gb, which is the maximum
partition size Win95's FAT16 file system can handle.

Install Win95 first, being sure to select "C:\Windows" when asked
for the default Windows directory.

Once Win95 is installed, boot from the WinXP installation CD and be
very sure to to specify "D:\Windows" when asked for the default Windows
directory, to place it in the other partition. The WinXP installation
routine will automatically set up a Multi-boot menu for you. The
default settings for this menu can be readily edited from within WinXP.

This method can be adapted to using 2 physical hard drives by
placing the boot partition (C:, which still must be FAT16) and Win95 on
the Primary Master hard drive, and the second operating system on the
second hard drive.

It is also possible to have a 3rd partition for shared
applications, but it would be necessary for such a partition to be
formatted in the common file format (FAT16, making it very small). The
applications would also have to be installed into each OS (to ensure
proper system file placement and registry updates), one at a time, but
the bulk of the program files could be located on this common partition.
I do not, however, actually recommend doing this as, if you were to
uninstall such an application from one OS, you may not be able to
gracefully uninstall it from the second OS, having already deleted
crucial installation data during the first uninstall action.

Just about everything you need to know (URLs may wrap):

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/2/10.ASP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gettingstarted/multiboot.asp



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[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have a 2nd drive that has xp on it and I want to put windows 95.
How do I get to my c: drive in DoS I can only get to A: drive with
floppy disk.

If you boot from a floppy disk, you will get the default prompt of A: If you
then type C:, ity will take you to the C: drive.

However that assumes that the C: drive is FAT32. If it's NTFS (and most
Windows XP computers use NTFS) it will be invisible to DOS, since DOS
doesn't support NTFS. The only way to do this is with third-party software
such as NTFSDOS or NTFS4DOS.

Why do you want Windows 95?

 

[DatabaseBen]

incidentally, if you have old software that you want to
reuse, you may not need to install an old o.s. like
win 95. If this is the case, let us know what
software you want to use so that maybe we
can provide some tips.

An example is like office 95 or 97. You know these
can be used in winxp?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

incidentally, if you have old software that you want to
reuse, you may not need to install an old o.s. like
win 95. If this is the case, let us know what
software you want to use so that maybe we
can provide some tips.

An example is like office 95 or 97. You know these
can be used in winxp?

Office 95 may be an example, but Office 97 isn't. Although it will run under
Windows XP, it won't run under Windows 95. Windows 98 or later is required
for Office 97.

 

[Opinicus]

Why do you want Windows 95?

I can't speak for the OP but W95 is was sucked^h^h^h^h^h^h^h introduced me
to the Wonderful World of Windows.

There may be a nostalgia value perhaps?

Jeez, that was over ten years ago...

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I can't speak for the OP but W95 is was sucked^h^h^h^h^h^h^h
introduced me to the Wonderful World of Windows.

There may be a nostalgia value perhaps?

Considering all the security risks inherent in such an old version of
Windows, that could be a very expensive taste of nostalgia.

I wouldn't do it.