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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows NT/2000 => Topic started by: Akmed on November 10, 2005, 03:40:46 PM

Title: Triple booting and 2 OS's on one partition
Post by: Akmed on November 10, 2005, 03:40:46 PM
Hi,

Q 1)Does anyone know if it is possible to triple boot windows OS's , if so how?

Q2) Is it possible for 2 OS's to co-exist on 1 logical partition, please explain

thanks in advance,

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Title: Re: Triple booting and 2 OS's on one partition
Post by: GX1_Man on November 10, 2005, 03:46:44 PM
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Q 1)Does anyone know if it is possible to triple boot windows OS's , if so how?


Load them on separate partitions, with the oldest one first. Windows 95,98,ME must go on the first partition of the first logical drive.

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Q2) Is it possible for 2 OS's to co-exist on 1 logical partition, please explain


No reason to try, and lots of ways to get problems. If you format them all as FAT32 and instal Windows #2 and #3 as logical drives on an extended partition, each will be able to see the data of the others. Or ideally creat a 4th partition (FAT32) that they can all access, just for data.
Title: Re: Triple booting and 2 OS's on one partition
Post by: pcdoc4christ on November 10, 2005, 05:01:56 PM
Akmed:

I have one system that has MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional.  I am able to boot to any of the above operating systems on the computer without any third party boot manager.

What operating systems do you want to install?

Doc