I have DOS, Windows95 and NT installed, and want them all to show on the boot menu.

John Savill

March 4, 1999

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A. You need a handy utility called bootpart, which creates multiple operating .sys files enabling DOS and Windows 95 to be shown on the boot menu:

  1. Create an Emergency Repair Disk! (RDISK /s)

  2. Reboot the machine and boot into windows95

  3. When "Starting Windows95" is displayed press F8

  4. Select option 8 to boot to previous version of DOS

  5. Once in DOS goto where you unzipped bootpart.zip and type
    BOOTPART DOS622 c:BOOTSECT.622 "MS-DOS 6.22"
    BOOTPART WIN95 c:BOOTSECT.W95 "Windows 95"
    BOOTPART REWRITEROOT:C:

  6. Edit the boot.ini file to remove the old MS-DOS/Windows95 option
    attrib c:boot.ini -r -s
    edit c:boot.ini and remove c:="MS-DOS"
    attrib c:boot.ini +r +s

  7. Reboot

Be aware that using Bootpart may cause problems if you select "Previous Windows version" from Windows 95.

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