cbagger01
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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,04:40 |
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Windows is usually locaed in your first partition, ie: hda1 but sometimes it is located in a later partition if you have a "diagnostics partition" from your computer manufacturer.
So the best way to find it is to run cfdisk on the drive and see where the largest partition is located. This is usually your windows partition.
Of course you can always look at the contents by opening up an emelfm window and navigate to the /mnt directory.
To look at hda1, for example, you would Right-Click on the hda1 mountpoint directory and choose "Mount" from the context menu.
If you wish to keep Windows and install DSL to a new hard drive partition, then you will probably need to resize your existing Windows partition to a smaller size. If you can free up 300-500MB of disk space, you can do a full hard drive install of DSL with a little room to spare for new program installs. There is a commercial program called "Partition Magic" that can do this, but there is also a Free Linux program called "parted" that can do this. Partition Magic is easier to use, but parted also works well for MSDOS/Win95/Win98/WinME systems. But you will probably first need to delete some unneeded files on your "C:\" drive in order to make room.
First, you need to be able to boot into Windows 95.
If you cannot boot into it and you have a Win95 boot floppy lying around, boot with this floppy and then use the DOS fdisk command to restore your bootsector
This is done with the command:
FDISK /MBR
You may also be able to get into Windows directly by downloading the SmartBootManager on a different computer and then make a SmartBootManager floppy disk. Then use this floppy disk to find and boot your Windows partition.
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