Dual Operating Systems

[ve6tp]

Hi:

I read a reply written by Kamex to another member regarding XP and Win'98 SE and it really got me to thinking .... The games I enjoyed the most was Might and Magic. They were classics as far as I'm concerned.

In June, I built a new CPU with 1 Gig RAM, top of the line graphics card, 3.2 Gig. clock, etc., etc. The operating system is XP Pro and I have 2 hard drives. One for general working requirements and the other for admin. requirements. But no matter what I tried, I cannot get my M&M games to work with XP, even using the "compatable with" option.

I don't believe in using "Partioning" on hard drives. I have the room to install a third seperate hard drive and after reading Kamex's comments, I was thinking of installing this third drive and dedicating it to Win'98 SE operating system and use it just for games.

If I do this, what overall problems might I anticipate? Can I have both systems boot up on Start up? Any problems with "Shut Down"? Any other problems?

Kamex, if you are reading this, please give me your thoughts, I'd appreciate it and also any from other members.

regards,
ve6tp

[waresoft]

You can dual boot. However the partition or your main hard drive must be formatted in FAT or FAT32. You cannot use NTFS.

The easiest way is to start from scratch and install your older OS first, and any other OS's in between your oldest and Windows XP. Then install Windows XP and it will automatically make a bootscreen for all OS's installed.

Make certain all OS's are on seperate OS's and/or partitions.


You can install 98 after XP is installed if your drive is formatted with the NTFS filesystem.

Here are insructions on that:

Install Windows 98 After XP Installation

[snowmonkey]

sorry I'm not "Kamex" but here is my idea.

If you are not going to use third party software like Partition Magic of Acronis OS selector the what "Waresoft" mentioned is correct. However, you could use third party software and create two Primary partition on the same hard drive and install two different operating system on them regardless of file format since these two partition are separate entity, it could be FAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS or even Linux format.... read up about Acronis Disk Director Suite
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../diskdirector/

Cheers

[waresoft]

I agree with you SnowMonkey. That is a good idea. Here is a great freeware boot manager that I have used to do what snowmonkey has suggested.

BootUS