Setting up a new OP?

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James McNulty

Hpw do I setup MS-DOS on a separate Partition. I have Partition Magic 8.0.
I don't want to delete any files on the Drive.

Jim
 
You'll have to install Windows XP after installing MS-DOS first.

How To Create a Multiple-Boot System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306559&Product=winxp

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| Hpw do I setup MS-DOS on a separate Partition. I have Partition Magic 8.0.
| I don't want to delete any files on the Drive.
|
| Jim
 
Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
|| You'll have to install Windows XP after installing MS-DOS first.
||

Unless the OP uses a boot floppy to get to the DOS partition?
 
Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
|| Windows XP does not have a DOS partition. MS-DOS must
|| be installed on the very first partition, primary drive or partition
|| C: If Windows XP is already installed on C:, one cannot install
|| MS-DOS.

Thanks for the info - I was drawing on my experience with Linux........
 
Not true, you can install MS-DOS on its own primary partition after XP, but
one would need a boot manager to get into it. I have had ME installed after
XP-Pro (NTFS), using a boot manager, namely a 98 bootdisk. What you mean is,
you cannot dual-boot XP with MS-DOS as the second install on a
extended/logical partition.

I am unsure if MS-DOS can be installed after XP, if XP is on a FATxx
partition tho, I have never done it.
 
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