Method and apparatus for providing dual booting capabilities to

Details Method and apparatus for providing dual booting capabilities to Method and apparatus for providing dual booting capabilities to

1997-04-04

1999-03-23

Kriess, Kevin A.

395712, G06F 906

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058871632

ABSTRACT:
A method for providing dual booting capabilities to a computer system is disclosed. The invention facilitates the installation of a plurality of operating systems on a computer system in any order such that the computer system is able to boot from any of the installed operating systems. The invention is particularly well suited for providing dual booting capabilities in both a DOS-based operating system and Windows NT when the DOS-based operating system is installed on the computer system subsequent to installation of Windows NT.

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J. David Bryan, Direct Boot Into WinNT/Win95/DOS, Nov. 13, 1995.
BootPart 2.0: Boot Partition for WinNT.
G. Vollant, Bootpart.txt-text file of Boot Partition 2.0 for WinNT.

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