|  | dual boot with Win95 and XP | | |
| | | sarahandus |  |
|  Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: dual boot with Win95 and XP |  |
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I did put the 2nd disc in the 1st boot position in the BIOS, but that just
delayed the startup. I have 2 physical hard drive discs installed on the
PC. I do not want to disturb the C disc with XP, it is running beautifully
and trouble free. I want to install 95 on the other disc to play the older
games - hopefully.
pegasus,
It wasn't a boot manager, but a partition manager because I wanted to
partition the 95 disc. (Paragon Partition Personal)
Would it work if I disabled the XP disc, disconnecting it and starting up
with a Win 98 startup disc?
"John John (MVP)" wrote:
| Quote: | You can do it without a third party boot manager but you will have to
place the Windows 95 disk in a Primary Master position. It isn't all
that hard to do but it takes a bit of fiddling about. If you want to go
it that way (instead of using a boot manager) post again.
John
John John (MVP) wrote:
The easiest way to do this would be by using a third party boot manager
like BootItNg or XOSL.
John
sarahandus wrote:
I have installed a 2nd hard drive to boot into Win 95, but so far I
have found no way to install the 95 on the new drive. Pc always boots
into the C drive with XP. Have tried a partition manager but that
only made the 2nd drive disappear from the system. If I change the
BIOS to boot from a CD drive the Win95 will start, but I get a message
that it can only work from MS DOS. How can I manage this dual boot?
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| | | Pegasus (MVP) | |
| | Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:09 pm Post subject: Re: dual boot with Win95 and XP | |
"sarahandus" <sarahandus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B9178467-AF66-438B-B86A-2EC4EA6E0FAA@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | I did put the 2nd disc in the 1st boot position in the BIOS, but that just
delayed the startup. I have 2 physical hard drive discs installed on the
PC. I do not want to disturb the C disc with XP, it is running
beautifully
and trouble free. I want to install 95 on the other disc to play the
older
games - hopefully.
pegasus,
It wasn't a boot manager, but a partition manager because I wanted to
partition the 95 disc. (Paragon Partition Personal)
Would it work if I disabled the XP disc, disconnecting it and starting up
with a Win 98 startup disc?
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Yes, it might, depending on your BIOS - why not give it a try? |
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| | | sarahandus | |
| | Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: dual boot with Win95 and XP | |
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"philo" wrote:
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"sarahandus" <sarahandus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE9C9ED2-C94D-436C-90F3-F3C0E36708B3@microsoft.com...
I have installed a 2nd hard drive to boot into Win 95, but so far I have
found no way to install the 95 on the new drive. Pc always boots into the
C
drive with XP. Have tried a partition manager but that only made the 2nd
drive disappear from the system. If I change the BIOS to boot from a CD
drive the Win95 will start, but I get a message that it can only work from
MS
DOS. How can I manage this dual boot?
Any machine that's good enough to run XP is unlikely to run win95.
Win95 usually requires a patch to run on a cpu over 300 mhz
and unless win95 can be booted to safe mode, it needs to be manually
extracted and installed from dos. Also:
from my experimentation, the patch does not always work.
Additionally, not likely to have any drivers for the newer chipsets,
though that alone would not prevent Win95 from running.
If you really want to run Win95 I suggest running it in a virtual machine
Since all other option failed, I'll look into VM. Especially since I |
already have a copy.
Thanks all~ |
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| | | philo | |
| | Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:52 am Post subject: Re: dual boot with Win95 and XP | |
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"sarahandus" <sarahandus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB238761-67B1-45E4-873F-56D2B05D74A4@microsoft.com...
| Quote: |
"philo" wrote:
"sarahandus" <sarahandus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE9C9ED2-C94D-436C-90F3-F3C0E36708B3@microsoft.com...
I have installed a 2nd hard drive to boot into Win 95, but so far I
have
found no way to install the 95 on the new drive. Pc always boots into
the
C
drive with XP. Have tried a partition manager but that only made the
2nd
drive disappear from the system. If I change the BIOS to boot from a
CD
drive the Win95 will start, but I get a message that it can only work
from
MS
DOS. How can I manage this dual boot?
Any machine that's good enough to run XP is unlikely to run win95.
Win95 usually requires a patch to run on a cpu over 300 mhz
and unless win95 can be booted to safe mode, it needs to be manually
extracted and installed from dos. Also:
from my experimentation, the patch does not always work.
Additionally, not likely to have any drivers for the newer chipsets,
though that alone would not prevent Win95 from running.
If you really want to run Win95 I suggest running it in a virtual
machine
Since all other option failed, I'll look into VM. Especially since I
already have a copy.
Thanks all~
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It should work...but post back with the results. |
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| | | Plato | |
| | Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: Re: dual boot with Win95 and XP | |
=?Utf-8?B?c2FyYWhhbmR1cw==?= wrote:
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I have installed a 2nd hard drive to boot into Win 95, but so far I have
found no way to install the 95 on the new drive. Pc always boots into the C
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Booting to win95 is a waste of time. If you want win95, then use win95B
or win95B w/usb disk.
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