Hi there,
just throwing a suggestion in,
the NT4 boot partition needs to be under the 2G limit,
if you don't have the NT drive partitioned then the bootloader
cannot see a drive over the 2G ceiling, suggest you partition the
NT drive as 1.5G for the primary partition and whatever for the
rest, NT should install on the Primary, and be capable of booting.
WIN9x will also need a presence on the Primary partition under
the 2G ceiling. Hope this isn't too confused. I was running this
situation for a while, now I use caddys and physically swap drives.
Andrew


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Dustooff@mpx.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Kraut <engalt@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: <OT> 95/NT dual boot problem


> Been there, done that.  Still doesn't work.  Thanks for the reply
> though.  Anyone else care to take a stab at it?
>
> "Harold H. Bisana" wrote:
>
> > How about try this steps:
> >
> > First, fdisk your drive on FAT16 support. Then partition it for
> > multiple drives, drive C: as primary drive for win9x system, drive D:
> > for winNT system, then of course you'll have a room for data drive E:.
> >
> > Install first your Windows95/98 operating system. Then after that,
> > install the WindowsNT OS.
> >
> > I hope it'll gonna work fine now.
> >
> > Prince Harold
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Brian Kraut wrote:
> >
> >> This is almost PIC related since my PIC work is stopped dead in its
> >> tracks until I get this resolved.
> >>
> >> I have been trying for a week on a 13G Maxtor and a 15G Western
> >> Digital
> >> drive to set them up as 95/NT dual boot machines.  When I do it on a
> >>
> >> 3.5G drive everthing works fine.  On the big drives 95 installs
> >> fine,
> >> but after NT reboots for the first time on installation I get a BSD
> >> and
> >> an INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE message.
> >>
> >> I have tried both DOS FAT and FAT 16.  I have tried installing NT
> >> than
> >> 95.  I have made sure EZ BIOS was not running.  I have use both the
> >> partitioning tools with each drive and tried FDISK.  I have tried 95
> >>
> >> full version and upgrade version.  I have tried two different NT
> >> CDs.
> >> Nothing will work.  I can install either one by itself, but I can't
> >> get
> >> a dual boot to work on these drives.
> >>
> >> Please help.  I will be forever thankfull to anyone who can solve
> >> this
> >> for me.  Doubly so if you can also copy your answer to
> >> brian.kraut@seaserve.com.
> >
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