Use win2000 boot menu to achieve windows family portrait

Q: Why use win2000's multi-boot menu instead of other third-party multi-boot software?

A: The multi-boot menu of win2000 (including NT4) is located in the boot area of ​​the system active partition. It is easy to manage. After the error or poisoning, you can simply start the machine with a floppy disk, and then sys c: restore the system boot area. In addition, we know that the hard disk is the most important partition table in the 0 channel. If the partition table has bad sectors because of repeated reading and writing of the partition table, then the hard disk is basically equal to scrap. The partitioned system area is in a different location depending on the location and size of the partition. So even if the hard disk has bad sectors, it does not affect its use.

Q: How many systems can the win2000 boot menu support?

A: This question can be difficult to answer. If your hard disk partition is divided into three main partitions, plus N extended partitions, the system supported by win2000 can be difficult to estimate. But this is not the focus of our discussion. We are talking about installing dos6.22, win32, win95, win98, winme, winnt4, win2000 on the same hard disk. Or you can add winxp.

Q: Previous Multi-system software needs to be re-partitioned (mainly divided into several primary partitions), and my hard disk has only one primary partition and one extended partition. Can I use multiple systems of win2000?

A: Yes. 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 booting other systems on logical partitions. Moreover, Microsoft's products have a feature, always think that the partition it starts is the active partition (that is, we often say the c drive), so most of the information introduced by the Microsoft family portrait are backup drive for each operating system c drive Software, implemented by overwriting the file. This always makes people feel unsatisfied. Can it be like win95 enters dos6.22, just relying on the name of the file to achieve it? What caused this stupid way?

Actually this question is very simple. Because Microsoft's product startup file has a file called IO.sys, its location must be the first file of the active partition, so for this first, the previous method must be covered to ensure its first.

So, our goal is to let win2000 support launching other windos from logical partitions, and to achieve Microsoft family portraits by simply renaming files.

A: You are so nice, how do you do it?

Q: Before entering the actual battle, let's assume that your current hard disk structure is divided by Microsoft's standard fdisk, that is, a C drive and several logical disks. c: disk mounted win98 (or winme), d: disk installed win2000 such a standard structure. (What, you have not installed win2000? It does not matter, do not install win2000 can also achieve the multi-windos coexistence mentioned above. This technique for the installation of win2000 and then use the previous win9x clone to restore the C drive, lost the win2000 boot menu Friends are equally applicable. But if you want to say a word, please be patient.)

1. Our first partition C: made dos6.22, win32, win95 coexist.

This is no need to say more, win9X itself supports the coexistence of these three systems. Simply put it is to copy the system file of dos6.22 to the root directory of the c drive, and name IO.dos, MS.dos, config.dos, autoexec.dos, copy the IO.sys of win95 in the root directory of the c drive. Named IO.w40 and set BootMulti=1 for MSdos.sys.

Note that the format of the c drive must be fat16 (if you intend to give up dos6.22, you can also use fat32. The above mentioned need not be changed.)

2. Win98 The cloned backup is restored to the d drive, and the winme clone backup is restored to the e drive. If you don't clone it, you can install it slowly.

In order to ensure a good c drive, please install the win9x comrades in the D drive and the E drive to keep the IO.sys of the c drive. After the installation of msdos.sys is completed, use them to overwrite the file with the same name. . And do win98 and winme boot disk (clone comrades will not do) after starting the system with the corresponding boot disk, sys d: ; sys e: respectively transfer the system to the corresponding logical partition.

3. Install win2000 to F disk, clones of comrades can still use clones. Comrades who have not cloned can also do not win up to four win2000 boot disks, win2000 uses NTFS format or fat32 will follow you.

If your partition is not enough during the installation process, please use pqmagic to draw it out.

Ok, now that the ingredients are ready, just wait for the pot. Start it first. In the front, the comrades who installed the win2000 in the E disk can only start the win95 of the c drive, and the friend who installed the way can start the win95 of the c drive and the win2000 of the E drive. Now it is the focus:

one: recovery Win2000 multi-start menu preparations

Win2000 boot menu is not lost comrades can skip this step. Just add related options.

To restore the win2000 multi-boot menu, you need to use a tool, bootpart. It is a free software designed to modify the Windows NT multi-boot menu. BootPart can add Dos and Windows 9x to NT multi-boot menu afterwards, even OS/2Multiboot, Linux Partitions (with Lilo) or floppy boot function is no problem! (The software is introduced.)