Dual boot - XP & DOS

[Danny Boy]

I need to create a new partition for DOS on a laptop running XP. Can
PartitionMagic or some similar utility create the new partiotion and move XP
to it since I understand I need to install DOS on a FAT formatted system
partition? I don't want to reformat the drive and reinstall XP if I can help
it, but I've read that you need to install DOS on the primary system
partition and then XP after.

TIA

 

[&re]

I need to create a new partition for DOS on a laptop running XP. Can
PartitionMagic or some similar utility create the new partiotion and move XP
to it since I understand I need to install DOS on a FAT formatted system
partition? I don't want to reformat the drive and reinstall XP if I can help
it, but I've read that you need to install DOS on the primary system
partition and then XP after.

Do you really need full DOS? or can you -whatever you have to run in Dos
mode- run it in the command mode of XP ( kind of DOS emulation)? Is it to be
used in conjunction with XP or do you want to start up in Full DOS?
If not. Check if you have unused(unformatted) space on the laptop hard drive
en use this as a full DOS environment. Providing it is large enough.
Eventually you might have to install a BootManager!
If not, Yes PartitionMagic8 can RESIZE your hard drive. but PLEASE take a
backup,!!! Although PM8 is a great program, if read of occasions were it
ruined the whole disk!!!

Success

&re

 

[Clark Griswold]

I need to create a new partition for DOS on a laptop running XP. Can
PartitionMagic or some similar utility create the new partiotion and move
XP to it since I understand I need to install DOS on a FAT formatted system
partition? I don't want to reformat the drive and reinstall XP if I can
help it, but I've read that you need to install DOS on the primary system
partition and then XP after.

TIA

Forget moving XP. Too many pointers in the registry and elsewhere. Much
easier to reinstall no matter how much you love your present install.

Install DOS on the first partition. Then XP on the next. In that order. XP
will take care of the boot menu.

 

[SlowJet]

DOS uses FAT, Win XP uses NTFS and FAT32.
How is XP going to write on the FAT file system?

DOS and XP are mutually exculsive in a multiply boot disk.
The first Partition needs to be FAT32.
SJ

 

[SlowJet]

DOS uses FAT, Win XP uses NTFS and FAT32.
How is XP going to write on the FAT file system?

DOS and XP are mutually exculsive in a multiply boot disk.
The first Partition needs to be FAT32.
SJ

 

[SlowJet]

"Eventually you might have to install a BootManager'

No evetually, mandentory.

SJ

 

[Clark Griswold]

DOS uses FAT, Win XP uses NTFS and FAT32.
How is XP going to write on the FAT file system?

DOS and XP are mutually exculsive in a multiply boot disk.
The first Partition needs to be FAT32.
SJ

Slowjet,

Just for starters check out the following. Then post back why you can't use
FAT as a boot partition with Windows XP.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306559

 

[Ken Blake]

In

DOS uses FAT, Win XP uses NTFS and FAT32.

Windows XP can use NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12, in any and all
combinations.

How is XP going to write on the FAT file system?

Without the slightest difficulty.

 

[Danny Boy]

Thanks for the reply (and to everyone else). That's what I figured.

 

[CZ]

DOS uses FAT, Win XP uses NTFS and FAT32.
How is XP going to write on the FAT file system?
DOS and XP are mutually exclusive in a multiply boot disk.
The first Partition needs to be FAT32.

SJ:

All MS NT based op systems will work with a FAT16 C: drive, with the NT
based op system in a D: (or higher) vol using the NT boot loader.

I run NT 4.0, Win2k Pro, XP, and Win2k3 server with a FAT16 C: drive w/o
problems.

 

[SlowJet]

Well, I was wrong. eeeek! The world has ended.
Everything I'm read up until today said XP only used NTFS and FAT32.

Oddly, this new insite has no affect on the real world. DOS is still Stupid
and FAT (1 through 99) is soooo 10 minutes ago.

Taking about DOS is like listening to the drunk boys talk about beer and
fish.

SJ

 

[SlowJet]

YES YES YES Call me Howard Dean for being high on NTFS and safe, secure,
reliable computing for the 99% of the users who couldn't care less about
bootloaders, DOS or FAT causing world wide disaster and setting the universe
back to the 1600's.

DOS BUSH away

SJ

 

[Clark Griswold]

Well, I was wrong. eeeek! The world has ended.
Everything I'm read up until today said XP only used NTFS and FAT32.

Oddly, this new insite has no affect on the real world. DOS is still
Stupid and FAT (1 through 99) is soooo 10 minutes ago.

Taking about DOS is like listening to the drunk boys talk about beer and
fish.

You are forgiven. But, as Wayne Glynn said, DOS, whether it was written by
MS or IBM or whoever, is still necessary.

DOS 3.3 was bullet proof. I wouldn't install it on a system today (heck, it
may not even install on a hd bigger than 32 MB), but, it had it's place in
history.

And I *do* like beer and fish.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I need to create a new partition for DOS on a laptop running XP. Can
PartitionMagic or some similar utility create the new partiotion and move XP
to it since I understand I need to install DOS on a FAT formatted system
partition? I don't want to reformat the drive and reinstall XP if I can help
it, but I've read that you need to install DOS on the primary system
partition and then XP after.

You can use PM. Both it and XP need to be on Primary partitions - and
you can have up to four on a disk. Use PM to shrink the XP one, move it
up a bit, make a new FAT (16) one in the space released. Then set that
as active and install DOS to it. Once done, make the XP one Active
again (the DOS FDISK will do this) , boot it and install PM's Boot Magic
Boot Manager