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Copy and Paste Between Android and Windows. Protect Windows 10 From Internet Explorer. Mozilla Fights Double Standard. Connect to a Hidden Wi-Fi Network. A computer with a floppy disk drive 3. Space to create a new partition of 2Gb 4. The Stepup disks - DOS 6. A utility Boot. This is useful if anything goes wrong. This is the file that controls the booting of the Windows partition. The file is located in the root directory of your Windows partition. Change the read-only attribute, by right clicking, selecting Properties, and removing the read-only tick.
Then, we need a safe copy. Select boot. Do NOT change the original, boot. We need to create a small DOS partition on the hard disk. Theoretically, it could be 'before' or 'after' the existing Windows partition, but I have not tried it 'after'. So, we have to move the Windows partition to the right.
I used Norton v. Shut down Windows, place the 1st diskette in the A: drive and switch on. When asked, place the 2nd diskette in this drive and get to the Partition Magic screen.
Note the current size of the Windows partition. In the Free Space Before box type Mb. Do this task. If the Windows partition decreases in size, make it larger to be the same size before and after. Leave Norton. About this point you may have lost the ability to boot the original Windows. We should now try it. Remove all floppies from drives. If the machine boots successfully all is well.
If not, getting it back lies with the boot. It is possible that the boot. So we should start by over-writing it with the copies made before partitioning. Mending boot. You will be able to select your Windows partition. First, change the name of the boot.
Now try it. If it boots, all is well. But it suggests that moving the Windows partition might have left some corrupted files. So, intensive file checking with chkdsk, etc is called for. If the re-boot fails there are some checks that can be made. At the prompt change to D:. Now, type type boot. This is a lie, as the operating system no longer resides in partition 1 of rdisk 0 , but partition 2.
But that is way Microsoft wants it, and it will be assigned the drive letter C, when we get it to boot. The DOS partition that is the real partition 1 will get drive letter D.
Things NOT to try are rdisk 0 partition 2 that produces the well known fiction about hal. I guess at this point, suicide is an option. If the boot.
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