GabrielKnight123 wrote:Thanks tayyare for the cylinder setup and everyone else for the recommendations I got sidetracked and while not proceeding with Masterbooter I tried XFDisk and this program is very easy to use so I like this very much and the boot manager is nice and simple with its retro blue boot screen complete with white line borders its something out of Dos like a file manager, when I mastered XFDisk I tried PLOP boot manager and im sticking with this one because of its ease of use for the whole menu and that it can hide partitions from other OS's and you cant see a better star warp unless its from Windows 98 or 95 screen saver. I'll go back to Masterbooter later and have another go at it but from the manual it says the free version can only create primary partitions and not extended or logical though it seems to make them anyway.
Tayyare why should I make two primary partitions for Dos as the boot manager would have to step in to enable them to see eachother when instead I can just make the default primary with a logical?
I always considered primary partitions as more simpler and straight forward in multiboot systems. I never use logical drives in extended partitions. Extended partition is something forced by regular MS-DOS disk utilities like FDISK, and I really don't use FDISK anyways. You can call it personal preference.
Two dos partitions is actually not both for booting from. The second dos partition is a data only partition to store your extra dos files and also for exchanging data between dos and W9x. Remember, If you choose to hide bootable partitions from each other (you need to do this), when you boot W9x, you will not be seeing the DOS partition, and when you boot DOS, w9x fat32 partition is always invisible anyways. .
By the way, FDISK cannot create more than one primary partition, but DOS has no problem with upto 4 primaries on a single disk. DOS can see all those primaries without any help from any multiboot software (as long as they are FAT16 of course).
As a side note, Masterbooter has also a blue boot menu with white sidelines and it can of course hide bootable partitions from each other.
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