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How To dual Boot Windows 95 & Windows 98

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Hello, I am wondering how to dual boot Windows 98 SE & Windows 95 OSR2. I have Boot Magic 5 installed & Partition Magic 7 installed. I have partitioned the Hard drive into 2 partitions, a 7 Gb. & a 5 Gb. The hard drive is a 20 Gb HDD. I have 98 installed on the 7 Gb. Partition, & I want to install 95 on the 5 Gb. Partition. I formated the 5 Gb. partition using fat 32. I booted to the Windows 95 boot disk, a system disk from a Gateway 2000 P5-100. MS-DOS can’t see the 5 Gb. partition, but, the partition is enabled in Partition Magic. I can see the Windows 98 partition though. I already have Boot Magic enabled with the 5 Gb.

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  1. There’s a couple reasons why posting to an existing thread can be a problem. The first, if it’s new one, is that it’s sometimes hard for us to mentally keep them separate–we forget which one we’re posting to.

    The second, if it’s an older thread, is that fewer people will view it and thus you’ll have less input.

    But don’t worry about it right now. You can use fdisk and create the primary and extended partitions and a logical drive in the extended partition. But when installing 95 or 98 it will always install on the primary–you can’t direct it to install in an extended partition. So you’d have to have the loader set up before installing the second OS.

    I’ve never had a reason to use a boot loader but that’s what they’re for. I’m not sure if you need to install it first and then the OS’s or if you install one OS on the primary and then install the loader. But I’m sure any loader you use will have instructions on how to install it.

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