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

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...
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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