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From: paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HD partition and MS Windows
Message-ID: <8904171707.AA10132@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 17 Apr 89 17:07:45 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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After I change partition to split into two different operating systems
(Xenix/386 and Compaq Dos 3.31),  I can change active partition without
any problem and I can boot either system without any problem at all.
I notice that I can not run MS Windows/386 at all, even testing with
removing autoexec.bat and config.sys.  BUT if I boot Dos from floppy
disk, I can run Windows without any problem.  It appears that MS
Windows does not like mixed operating system HD partition???
 
Last Summer I had trouble with installing OS/2 in former Xenix computer
and MS told me to make low level format the whole hard disk.
 
How can I fix the problem with MS Windows?   Can you explain how HD
partition work?
 
Willy