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1. #PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK HOW TO#
2. #PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK INSTALL#
3. #PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK PC#
4. #PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK WINDOWS 7#

Then use Gparted to format the boot partition fat 16. If one has a boot option set up in the Windows XP, one could try copying the files out of the boot partition. Unfortunately I don’t think Gparted will convert NTFS to FAT 16. I tested it and I couldn’t get it to run.

And PartitionMagic I don’t label run on the modern big hard drives. I believe PartitionMagic could convert NTFS back in the fat 16. But no joy from either version.I thought it was a one-way process, or is that just a Windows internal restriction ?” I thought maybe a fresh version of windows might make a difference. PS You'll notice I have two Windows partitions. Would you please just pull out a fresh hard disk and make this work? And generate a step list? Make sure to start out with Windows installed first before creating the Dos partition. So now I've done all this beta testing for you Computer Guru. So I know the partition is bootable if only I could get Boot manager to cooperate. and couldn't get Boot manager back through repair. But only directly - No boot manager list. I will say that at some point in my thrashing around, I did boot into Dos. When trying to boot into the dos partition, I just get grub. Reads the same as first list with autoNeoGrub in entry #3.

#PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK INSTALL#

Install Win 7 on a second hard disk and use disk management to set Win partition on original disk to Activeīoots into Windows fine. There are a total of 3 entries listed in the bootloader.īootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exeīCD ID: So here are the steps I took on the last go trying 2.0.1Ĭhecked Disk Management. So far haven't seen many differences between 2.0.2 2.1 and 2.0.1 as far as results go.Just grub.

#PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK PC#

It’s current version is PC DOS 2000 and is available free DOS below can be burned down to a DVD so that gets around having to have the floppy thing.įree DOS-compatible Operating Systems (MS-DOS/PC-DOS Clones) It had its own excellent memory management and worked a tad better than MS-DOS 6.66 + Quem 386. However there was an independent real DOS 7.

If you do a “ver” command in Windows 95 you see that the underlying DOS version is 7. A lot of people also used Quem 386 for memory management to run games. Then later you could resize the partition’s. Also the window seven would use a second partition as its boot partition and leave the first partition alone.

#PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK WINDOWS 7#

That install Windows 7 into 55 GB third partition.

#PC DOS 7.1 BOOT DISK HOW TO#

I haven’t yet figured out how to get window seven installed in just one partition.Īnother possibility might be to make a primary fat 16 partition of very small size like 10 MB. When I installed Windows 7 it took over the first partition and made it it’s hidden boot partition. Then I manually made a 55 GB partition as the second partition. I had a 2 GB fat 16 partition at the front of the drive to test Windows 2000. If, like me, you pre-format your HDD into multiple partitions before you install the OSs, W7 is all in one place)” “(and that partition will only be there if you let W7 arrange its own space at install. I thought it was a one-way process, or is that just a Windows internal restriction ?”