Computer Learning

[lostcowboy]

Hi Doug, Gotmilk,but,but but. Hold on there, looks like I got back just in time! First you will not be going into the bios to change which disk to boot from, unless you have two hard drives! I believe you only have one hard drive! What you will be doing is partitioning the hard drive. Remember that dos 6.2 and windows 3.1 can only use 2 gig's of hard drive, and they must go on the first partition. also it must be a fat formated drive. I would use your dos 6.22 or windows 3.1 disk (fdisk) to make the first partition of 2 gig, and make it active. Don't worry about the rest of the hard drive, windows XP will do it later.next format the partition with the format command and install dos and windows 3.1. You now have windows 3.1 running in two gigs. Now reinstall windows XP, it should ask you where you want to install it and show the disk partitions. this is when you create the other partition, for windows XP and install XP in the new partition. windows XP should ask you if you want to multiboot, just say yes. Once XP is installed, when you start the computer it will ask which OS you want to run windows XP or 3.1. Here is Microsoft's article on multibooting be sure to read the related links. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/multiboot.mspx