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Dual boot DOS and Windows 95 on different disks

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First post, by zuldan

Posted on 2024-02-04, 09:59

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I’ve seen a lot of posts with booting DOS and Windows 95 on the “same” disk, but I’m trying to boot DOS and Windows on separate disks. DOS is on a SD card and Windows 95 on IDE.

I know I can just change the boot order in The BIOS but that’s going to be painful. Unfortunately older motherboards (socket 7) don’t have a nice F8/F10 boot menu. Is there some native way to dual boot? Or happy to use 3rd party software.

Reply 1 of 3, by dionb

Posted on 2024-02-04, 14:04

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You need a boot manager on one of the drives. It can boot partitions on any drive. PLOP would be the obvious choice, but there are many more, including some period correct ones.

Reply 2 of 3, by keenmaster486

Posted on 2024-02-04, 15:36

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Use BOOTMGR from BTTR

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Reply 3 of 3, by stanwebber

Posted on 2024-02-04, 18:58

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grub2 is my boot manager of choice for windows these days...so much easier than bootmgr or ntldr. helps if you have a cdrom to boot a live linux distro for management.

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