paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) (04/18/89)
After I change partition to split into two different operating systems (Xenix/386 and Compaq Dos 3.31), I can change active partition without any problem and I can boot either system without any problem at all. I notice that I can not run MS Windows/386 at all, even testing with removing autoexec.bat and config.sys. BUT if I boot Dos from floppy disk, I can run Windows without any problem. It appears that MS Windows does not like mixed operating system HD partition??? Last Summer I had trouble with installing OS/2 in former Xenix computer and MS told me to make low level format the whole hard disk. How can I fix the problem with MS Windows? Can you explain how HD partition work? Willy