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From: Amit Kumar <kassoc-2 AT idt DOT net>
To: "Opendos (E-mail)" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>,
        "Opendos-Support (E-mail)"
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Cc: "'jj AT pcombo DOT co DOT nz'" <jj AT pcombo DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 18:46:42 -0500
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>Hello,Mark,Dim,David,Evan and all,
>Thank you very much for your email regarding the
>Triple-boot in one HD,i will try some of them and see
>what will happen.
>Before that,i downloaded opendos in my HD in which 
>already got win95 and winnt4.0,but as soon as finished
>Od7.02 took over control of Boot sector and could not 
>get back to win95 or NT,then i reinstalled win95,and
>it scandisked HD during the setup process,and could not
>get through it ,HD was very noisy,it seemed spining difficult.
>then i tried to copy some data file into my smaller HD
>and could not copy successfully,so i took HD to computer
>shop to swap a new one,they said different Fat system
>in one HDD can kill the HD,is that right?
>the new HDD 4.3g is still empty,i am more careful now,
>i dont know how to put win95,NT,opendos7.02,
>in OpendosFAQ,it says from win95 can boot to previous
>dos(opendos),and i tried it ,it didn't work,as win95
>search for msdos io files,not ibmbio,i have set bootmulti=1
>but not work,so i install win95 first then opendos7.02
>and dual-boot is successful,but still thinking of NT..
jj AT pcombo DOT co DOT nz
jj,

If you are willing to spend some money you can get Partition Magic, which comes with pqboot.  Pqboot allows you to hide and unhide primary partitions to boot to different OS's.  It also saves you from using one of you partitions for a boot manager.  
Here is my set up:
[---------------C:---------------][--------C:-------------------][--------------C:----------------][---------------------D:---------------------------]
[    OpenDos 7.02            ][         Win95                 ][          WinNT 4.0            ][            Data drive                                 ]
[     Primary Partition        ][     Primary Partition    ][         Primary Partition    ][  Extended partition with 1 logical drive]

BTW Partition Magic is a great program, it allows you to move, resize, and delete partitions without loosing data.  
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