How to boot into MS-DOS from NT4 or W2k?

[utopia]

How can i boot into MS-DOS from NT4 or W2k?

 

[Hyperchronismos]

No.And if you boot from a floppy you will not be able to see the NTFS partition.What exactly do you want to do?

 

[utopia]

I am dual booting NT4/W2k and made a FAT32 partition for Win 98SE or ME (not sure what to install), so i want to triple boot 9x, w2k, and NT.... i cant install 9x from within W2k or NT, i get an error...

 

[utopia]

My HD is partioned into 3 partitions, 1-NTFS for NT4, 2-NTFS for W2k, and 3-FAT32 for 9x...

 

[AndyHui]

If you have FAT32, then it is not possible to boot back into any of the "old" DOSs, ie 6.22...

If you want to install Win98/WinME, you must have your primary active partition as FAT32, because Win98/ME needs it boot files to reside there, regardless of what partition you actually install Win98/ME to.

So if you have Win2K on C: with NTFS, you need to convert C: into FAT32.

To install Win98/ME, I think you will need a Win98 boot disk. Boot to a DOS prompt from that and install from there. After that you will need to do a repair for Win2K/NT for the boot loader.

Messy, but can be done.

 

[utopia]

ok, so whats the solution?

 

[utopia]

whats a better/quick way?

 

[utopia]

Anyone know a different solution?

 

[SUOrangeman]

I obviously replied to the wrong thread. Hehe.

But you answer your question, you'll need a Win9x boot disk. The only way you can make one is from a system running Win95/98/98SE/ME. You cannot make a DOS boot disk from NT/2K.

-SUO

 

[bonkers325]

this is a simple question with a simple answer
use a bootdisk
do i need to tell u how to make one too

 

[utopia]

Yea you do, :Q cause I dont think you can make a bootdisk under NT platform, only under 9x.....

 

[utopia]

ttt

 

[Cyph3r]

Use http://www.bootdisk.com to create a bootdisk. But AndyHui has raised a valid point and that could still be a problem even after you create the bootdisk..Regards

 

[utopia]

Can anyone pleze tell me which one i need to go with? I figure the W98 DOS 6.22 one....

 

[AndyHui]

You need the Win98 boot disk. That will read FAT32. DOS 6.22 can only handle FAT16, not FAT32. But before you do that, if your C: is NTFS, make sure you change it to FAT32 with Partition Magic or something like that, otherwise your boot disk won't help that much.

 

[Train]

why cant you just use the command prompt?

 

[utopia]

I tried command prompt, still same error...