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22-07-2013, 08:45 PM | #11 | ||
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Ok I am watching this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiL7eZOi7qM "Install Windows 7 in Dual Boot with Pre-installed Windows XP" Dude makes out like all you do is stick the windows cd in and tell it to install to the newly partitioned drive. If this is true only hangup I can see is it might not like that I am going from XP to 98 from what I have read. Going to try install now. |
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22-07-2013, 10:06 PM | #12 | ||
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Ok the step I'm at now
I am trying to boot from cd but it keeps going to my HDD no matter what I do. I even went into the bios, changed the order and saved. No dice. So I am trying to troubleshoot that. In theory I can install win 98 onto the other partition. Then it will launch me into one of the OS's. Then I can install a program ecb something that will let me pick which drive to boot into. Its all a load of s--- but if it gets me to a place where I can play my favorite games with music it will be worth it. |
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22-07-2013, 10:56 PM | #13 | ||
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Ok I have tried for a couple hours now to get this thing to boot off of CD. I can't figure out whats wrong. The best I could get it to do was act like it was going to do something then spit out a long string of numbers in the black screen and something about IDE and Intel.
I noticed in my BIOS I can move my USB drives up to boot off them. My question is, what would I stick on this USB drive to where the computer is going to be able to detect it on startup if I do make the USB drive my first go to for startup? Would it be Windows98 in .iso format? |
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23-07-2013, 01:38 AM | #14 | |||||
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Once you manage to get WinXP running I strongly recommend that you visit and follow this guide ( How To Configure Dos For Gaming, which you can find in our tutorial subforum in our Troubleshooting forum in case the link don't work) so you can set up your autoexec.bat and config.sys files so they work in DOS. You can also use Win98 DOS mode which is not really DOS but an extended version of it made specially for Win98. If you configure those aforementioned config files you will be able to play DOS games normally. If you don't you'll be likely to face the exact same problems you mentioned before. Quote:
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However, if you think that playing with DOS is going to be that much easier to run DOS games... You obviously never played games in DOS back in the days. I did. I often spent almost as much time making games run than I did playing them. Prepare yourself for a steep learning curve... Quote:
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23-07-2013, 09:50 PM | #15 | ||
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It's possible that your Windows installation CD is not bootable. To make sure you could remove your hard disk from the boot sequence altogether (not just move it down), and if none of your other drives in the list are bootable, you'll know because your computer will fail to boot with a clear error message ("no boot disk/media" or something like that). You can always get back to the BIOS to restore the defaults.
If your CD isn't bootable you can certainly boot from a USB drive. It must be specially formatted or prepared. It's not just copying some files; and I don't think Windows does it. On this website you can download a program to make a USB bootable and add some diagnostic utilities in it: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/customize.html#usb I've never set up Windows in multi-boot, but I think it doesn't provide a generic solution. If I'm not wrong, when you proceed to install a newer version of Windows and you already have an older one, you may get the option to set up a dual boot, instead of erasing the older one. In other cases Windows doesn't provide multi-boot, as far as I know. I think there are Unix-like boot loaders that give you greater flexibility, specially if you want to dual boot between 'nix and Windows, but I don't know if they help you with installing two different Windows versions. One of these might be what you found. Virtual PC is far easier than any of this. Your BSOD is a symptom of a problem not particular to VPC, that you should try to solve anyway. Please note that if you install Windows 98 in your real machine to play DOS games, you may find that they don't work properly because your CPU is too fast or any other hardware issue. The "DOS mode" in Windows 9x (when you re-boot into the command line) is indeed completely real DOS. Only it's DOS version 7.x.
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24-07-2013, 01:21 AM | #16 | ||
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I don't know about an USB stick... But in the good old DOS days doing "format a: /s" did the trick.
Of course it format your disk, so don't keep important data on it if you do try! |
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Both games are from Win98 era, and made for that. Also, MtG have some problems on XP - two can be fixed with proper setting and ACT, third is too elusive, happens on rare systems and have something with low-level drivers conflict. Quote:
But usual fix with windowses is re-install 7 over win98 on the same place where it was. If dual boot is supported on Win7 (I have no idea, honestly), you will get working dual boot system. Quote:
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24-07-2013, 01:25 PM | #18 | ||
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Been there , done that, ditched the whole multi boot from one HD.
Solution: Save yourself some serious hassle, get a HD rack, and switch your HD. As many OSses as you want without any troubles. BTW: Quote:
Contrary to flops USB sticks don't have a specific boot sector located at cylinder 0/head 0/sector 1 , the soft needs to create a boot sector so that the Mobo can find and read it upon boot. But anyway, a USB stick is really too slow to run an OS from it. It's only interesting for OS install purposes, nothing more. The soft I usually use to create a bootable USB stick is Rufus (Win). http://rufus.akeo.ie/ Or in Linux UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ My two cents........
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24-07-2013, 07:10 PM | #19 | ||
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This is by far the hardest method to achieve your goal, IMO. OT: What a coincidence, I just got this laptop for free from someone at work http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/com...t/product.shtm
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