Using the Win2000 boot menu to implement the Windows family portrait

Q: Why do I need to use Win2000 multiple boot menu instead of other third party multiple boot software?

a:win2000 (including NT4), the Multiple boot menu is located in the boot area of the system active partition, easy to manage, error or virus can start the machine simply with a floppy disk, then SYS c: The system boot Zone is restored. In addition, we know that the hard disk is the most important is located in the 0-way partition table, if because of repeated read and write partition table and make the partition table bad way, then the hard disk is basically equivalent to scrap. The system area of a partition is in a different location depending on the location and size of the partition. So even if the hard drive appears bad, it does not affect its use.

How many systems can the q:win2000 boot menu support install?

A: This problem is not easy to answer, if your hard disk partition to draw three primary partitions, plus n an extended partition, the Win2000 supported by the system can not be estimated. But that's not the point of our discussion, we're talking about installing dos6.22,win32,win95,win98,winme,winnt4,win2000 on the same hard drive. Or you can add WinXP.

Q: The previous multiple system software needs to be repartition (mainly divided into several primary partitions), and my hard disk has only one primary partition and one extended partition, can I use Win2000 system?

A: That's OK. We know that NT4 and NT5 (Win2000) can be installed on extended partitions, but their boot menu only supports starting Win2000 from logical partitions and does not support other systems on the logical partition. Moreover, Microsoft's products have a feature, always think it starts the partition is the active partition (that is, we often say C disk), so, most of the information introduced by the Microsoft Family Portrait is a separate operating system of the C-disk boot software, through the file cover replacement implementation. This always makes people feel dissatisfied, can as Win95 into dos6.22, just by the name of the file to achieve it? What was the reason for this stupid idea?

In fact, the problem is very simple. Because Microsoft's product startup file has a name called Io.sys, its location must be the first file of the active partition, so for this first, the previous method must be overridden to guarantee its first.

Therefore, our goal is to let Win2000 support from the logical partition to start other WinDOS, and through simple file renaming to achieve the Microsoft family Portrait.

A: What do you say that sounds so good?

Q: Before we go into combat, let's assume that your current hard drive structure is made up of Microsoft's standard Fdisk section, which is a C disk and several logical disks. C: Disk mount Win98 (or WinME), D: Disk installation Win2000 Such a standard structure. (What, you haven't loaded Win2000?) It does not matter, do not install Win2000 also can achieve the many WinDOS coexistence I mentioned earlier. This technique is also true for friends who have Win2000 after installing the Win9x clone and then recovering the C-disk with the Win2000 boot menu. But if you want to say a word, please watch it patiently. ）

1. Our first partition C: Made Dos6.22,win32,win95 coexist.

I don't need to say that, Win9x itself supports the coexistence of these three systems. To put it simply is to copy into the dos6.22 system files to C-packing directory, and named Io.dos,ms.dos,config.dos,autoexec.dos, will Win95 Io.sys in the C-packing directory to replicate a point, named Io.w40, and set the Msdos.sys bootmulti=1.

Note that the C-disk format must be FAT16 (if you are going to give up dos6.22, you can also use FAT32.) There is no need to change what is said above. ）

2. Restore the clone of Win98 to D disk, and restore the WinME clone to E disk, and you will slowly install it without cloning.

In order to guarantee the good C-disk, please install the Win9x comrades in D and e disks first keep the Io.sys,msdos.sys after the installation is complete and use them to overwrite files with the same name. And do the Win98 and WinME of the boot disk (clone comrades do not do) after doing well, start the system with the corresponding boot disk, sys d:; SYS e: Transfer the system to the corresponding logical partition, respectively.

3. Installation of Win2000 to the F disk, there are clone comrades can still use cloning. No clone comrades can not do that up to four Win2000 boot disk, Win2000 in NTFS format or FAT32 as you.

If your partition is not enough during the installation, please pqmagic it out with a few strokes.

All right, now that the raw material is ready, just wait for the pot. Start a look at it first. In front of the clone installation Win2000 in E-disk comrades can only start C-disk Win95, while the installation of friends can start the C-disk Win95 and E-disk Win2000. Now it's going to be the point:

One: To restore the Win2000 before the multiple Start menu

Win2000 boot Menu The comrades who are not lost can skip this step. Only add the relevant options.

Restore win2000 Multiple boot menu to use a tool, Bootpart. It is a free software designed to modify the Windows NT multiple boot menu. Bootpart In addition to the DOS, Windows 9x added to NT multiple boot menu Chinese and foreign, even os/2multiboot, Linux partitions (with Lilo) or floppy disk boot function joined also no problem Oh! (The software is so introduced.) )

Here is a friend to ask, that is Bootpart has been modified NT multiple boot function, but also write this article what? Haha, the problem is that Bootpart only supports partitions and non fat-formatted partitions that are added to FAT16. And we now the big hard drive only uses FAT32 to manage to come over. In addition, Bootpart does not support adding a second hard drive from the NT boot menu, and it does not support booting the system from a logical hard drive. We use Bootpart just to use it to rebuild the NT boot menu function.

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