Booting Msdos/WindowsME/Windows2000

I can get MSdos partition 1 to boot ok. If I install WindowsME in
partition 2, I loose Msdos booting. If I restore the mbr to get Msdos to
boot I loose WindowsME. If I install Windows2000 in partition 3 it makes
a menu to boot either WindowsME or Windows2000 but not Msdos.
How do I get a menu that will allow booting of all three?
Why does WindowsME keep it's config files on partition 1 instead of
partition 2?




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"Claude Hopper (11) 5. ?" <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote...
>I can get MSdos partition 1 to boot ok. If I install WindowsME in partition 2,
>I loose Msdos booting. If I restore the mbr to get Msdos to boot I loose
>WindowsME. If I install Windows2000 in partition 3 it makes a menu to boot
>either WindowsME or Windows2000 but not Msdos.
> How do I get a menu that will allow booting of all three?
> Why does WindowsME keep it's config files on partition 1 instead of partition
> 2?

Windows 95/98/ME were actually GUIs built on top of an MSDOS kernel. So, if you
boot ME, you ARE booting MSDOS. Just open a "DOS box" window to run any MSDOS
programs.

FWIW, most DOS programs will run in a Win2000 Command Prompt window, too. You
may have to tweak the expanded/extended memory settings.

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:28:33 -0400, Claude Hopper (11) 5. ?
<boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>I can get MSdos partition 1 to boot ok. If I install WindowsME in
>partition 2, I loose Msdos booting. If I restore the mbr to get Msdos to
>boot I loose WindowsME. If I install Windows2000 in partition 3 it makes
>a menu to boot either WindowsME or Windows2000 but not Msdos.
>How do I get a menu that will allow booting of all three?
>Why does WindowsME keep it's config files on partition 1 instead of
>partition 2?

Install a boot manager into the MBR. This will present you with a boot
menu from which you can select your desired OS.

See http://www.ranish.com/part/ for one freeware example.

- Franc Zabkar
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Claude Hopper (11) 5. ? wrote:
> I can get MSdos partition 1 to boot ok. If I install WindowsME in
> partition 2, I loose Msdos booting. If I restore the mbr to get Msdos to
> boot I loose WindowsME. If I install Windows2000 in partition 3 it makes
> a menu to boot either WindowsME or Windows2000 but not Msdos.
> How do I get a menu that will allow booting of all three?
> Why does WindowsME keep it's config files on partition 1 instead of
> partition 2?
>
>
>
>

WindowsME contains MSDOS 7 so that's all you need. Install win2k and
have the option of me or w2k, works for me. I always put me and w2k on
the first drive in 2 partitions and put Linux on the second drive with
Grub. When I boot I have linux or windows grub menu, If I select windows
I get w2k or ME boot menu.



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