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Installing Two Windows® in One Harddisk Drive Without Dividing Partitions

I think many people(especially those in Hong Kong) have experienced this: When you browse a homepage using English Windows 95, and you visit a web site containing Chinese (or whatever languages). Then you open other software, try to look at what is inside, and you find that the code is not suitable for things homepage. And you would like to say, "..........."
In fact those things doesn't occur only in browsing homepage, but also in using software. When you have bought a new software and try to open it in your English Windows 95, and you get a lot of grabbage. I know English Windows 95 is much efficient than Chinese or Japanese Windows 95. English is faster because there is no need to care about Chinese and Japanese fonts input methods, especially in bootup.But it is quite troublesome to open other software and select the right code to view a homepage, or do whatever other things.
In this case, you would like to install one more Windows 95. There are actually some methods and software to do this, and maybe they are quite good, but these methods are troublesome to use and the software are not so easy for new users.Here are one of these methods:
Divide the harddisk to two partitions. Then install the two Windows 95 into two different logical drive. Use a batch to choose which Windows 95 you should use. It is a real troubnlesome thing: You have to use FDISK to divide the harddisk drive into two logical drive, but this can be done only when your harddisk is completely empty - without even an operating system. There are some software do divide your harddisk drive into two prtitiion without losing all data, but these software are not cheap! Why should you pay so much for something that you will use only once?
And now I have got a method to install two Windows 95 into one harddisk drive without dividing the harddisk into two partition. Below are detail instruction:
  1. Install your first Windows 95 (English is preferrable) inot a directory called C:\EWIN95 (directory can be whatever else, but all the filename used here are will be used in the batch below. If you use a new file name, you have to edit the batch by yourselves).
  2. Backup your config.sys, autoexec.bat, msdos.sys as config.eee, autoexec.eee and msdos.eee. (All in C:\ directory)
  3. Restart into MS-DOS mode by pressing F8 when you see the clause "Starting Windows 95................", tehn choose "Command Prompt only". (If you can't do this, edit C:\msdos.sys  and change the string "Bootmulti=0" to "Bootmulti=1" in it. If you can find such a string, just add "Bootmulti=1" in it)
  4. Install your Chinese Windows 95 into a directory called C:\win95\cwin95(BE careful! You'd better not to install it into a directory called CWin95. I haven't tried it yet and don't know if it works. If it does, please  .
  5. Backup your config.sys, autoexec.bat and msdos sys as config.ccc, autoexec.ccc and msdos.ccc. (Again all in C:\ directory).
  6. Write a batch called ewinboot.bat  Goto content of ewinboot.bat
  7. Write another batch called cwinboot.bat. Goto content of cwinboot.bat
  8. Restart your computer and enter Windows 95. Create a shortcut on your desktop (This should be Chinese Windows 95, so please create a shortcut of ewinboot.bat).
  9. Run your batch by double-clicking on the icon. Then restart your computer by selecting "Restart the computer".
  10. Then you are in English Windows 95 now!
Nice'n easy isn't it? It is much better than dividing your harddisk into two partition. This method can be used to install three or even more Windows 95. The only limit is your harddisk capacity!
If you cannot install two Windows 95 properly, please delete your Chinese Windows 95 and install English Windows 95 again.Then  e-mail me and tell me what has happened. If you live in Hong Kong, e-mail me your phone number, and I'll try to phone you.
 

Batch content:
@echo off
attrib -r -s -h C:\config.sys
attrib -r -s -h C:\msdos.sys
attrib -r -s -h C:\autoexec.bat
copy C:\config.eee C:\config.sys
copy C:\autoexec.eee C:\autoexec.bat
copy C:\msdos.eee C:\msdos.sys
attrib +r +s +h C:\config.sys
attrib +r +s +h C:\autoexec.bat
attrib +r +s +h C:\msdos.sys
(Batch ends here)
You can download the file from here:
 Download ewinboot.bat
Save the file in root directory (C:\).

Batch content:
@echo off
attrib -r -s -h C:\config.sys
attrib -r -s -h C:\msdos.sys
attrib -r -s -h C:\autoexec.bat
copy C:\config.ccc C:\config.sys
copy C:\autoexec.ccc C:\autoexec.bat
copy C:\msdos.ccc C:\msdos.sys
attrib +r +s +h C:\config.sys
attrib +r +s +h C:\autoexec.bat
attrib +r +s +h C:\msdos.sys
(Batch ends here)