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re: Can BOOT.INI load a DOS partition?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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Posted by DEX (11846 messages posted)


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On Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:14 pm, geek9pm wrote:
>I was thinking of chreating a small DOS partition on my hard drive. Or maybe using
>a small secondary drive for an older version of DOS. There are some things I would
>like to try, but not on my Windows 2000 system!
>So, the question is this. How do I tell the BOOT.INI to load the DOS partition as
>an option in the OS menu? I recall that with Windows 98 it was just
>C:\WINDOWS
>or something like that. Could that work also for DOS?
>




Written in response to:
Can BOOT.INI load a DOS partition? (geek9pm: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:14 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Can BOOT.INI load a DOS partition? (geek9pm: Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 12:02 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Can BOOT.INI load a DOS partition? (geek9pm: Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 3:14 pm)
-re: Can BOOT.INI load a DOS partition? (DEX: Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 4:36 pm)
*re: Can BOOT.INI load a DOS partition? (geek9pm: Thu, Feb 12, 2009, 12:02 pm)
*re: Can BOOT.INI load a DOS partition? (Jacob6601: Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 8:37 pm)
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