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The Windows NT flavour of Microsoft Windows has had the built-in ability, without needing third-party add-on "boot managers", to dual boot with other (Microsoft) operating systems since at least version 4. I can find questions here on SuperUser dealing with dual-booting Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 (a.k.a. Windows NT 5) with other operating systems, such as:

And there are Microsoft Knowledgebase articles dealing with this:

But what about versions before version 4? Could Windows NT 3.51, 3.5, or 3.1 dual boot with other (Microsoft) operating systems, with no third-party tools, too?

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  • `Windows XP` is the first consumer version that came with the `Windows NT` kernel. So much of your question basically repeats itself. – Ramhound Mar 24 '15 at 18:08
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    @Ramhound Yes, XP was the first NT based consumer version of Windows. The original NT was for workstations and servers. I got that. But what does that have to do with the question? How does a question repeat itself? Please elaborate. – Samir Mar 25 '15 at 00:28
  • Are you saying that Windows NT 3.1 was in fact the first Windows system that had the multi boot capability built into it? I could not care less if it's a "consumer" Windows or not. – Samir Mar 25 '15 at 00:38
  • I said nothing about `Windows NT 3.1` – Ramhound Mar 25 '15 at 10:38
  • *"Windows Vista is based on NT kernel, as is Windows 7, 8 and 10. But it doesn't mean they use NTLDR at all."* That is exactly what it means.... – Ramhound Mar 25 '15 at 18:06
  • Several of the people who voted to close this question the first time have just voted to close it a second time. It wasn't a well written question. Try writing your question like this. – JdeBP Mar 25 '15 at 21:23
  • How is this off topic as when Microsoft still provides these operating systems on MSDN? – Louis Waweru Mar 25 '15 at 22:15
  • @Louis That may be, but they are no longer supported. – DavidPostill Jul 08 '17 at 13:53

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Yes, it does. It bundles an OS Loader exactly like NT4

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  • Can you write some guidelines and refer the user to some sites in order to provide a good answer? – yass Jul 08 '17 at 14:02