17-11-2005, 04:16 AM
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With my old 486 laptop running windows 95, i have an IDE hard drive running on it.
When i take it out and i boot it up, of course it sais insert boot cd. but if i put an IDE cd-rom in place of the hdd and boot off a dos or win 95 boot, can i put in a old dos cd-rom and play it if it has no install require :blink: :help: ment? |
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17-11-2005, 06:12 AM
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1. You err... take the hard drive out of your laptop (why on earth???).
2. You boot from CD-ROM/Bootdisk 3. After boot you remove the CD-rom and put in another one and play a game of it 4. It works. 5. You're ... surprised? This is the way it has always worked. In the old days when PC's didn't have harddrive's you'd boot from a floppy containing the OS. AFter boot this would reside in memory and you swapped the disks to start your program/game. |
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17-11-2005, 08:33 AM
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yeah i knew dat.
I have the windows 95 cd-rom and boot disk, and can get all versions of boot disks at www.bootdisk.com So when you boot from the Windows 95 cd-rom is it like the real one or the ms-dos 1? :blink:  |
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17-11-2005, 09:05 AM
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I don't even remember any more, I rarely used windows 95 (still prefered DOS till windows 98), but I am sure that it was not DOS 1. If I remember correctly it was DOS 6.11
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18-11-2005, 05:48 AM
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thanks i just didnt know you could boot win 95 from a cd
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18-11-2005, 05:50 AM
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18-11-2005, 06:23 AM
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However, you do have a slightly irritating habit of double-posting... And Reup just misunderstood you there. Your initial post wasn't exactly lucid, you see.
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18-11-2005, 07:44 AM
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well im not the one who always shuts down peoples threads you know
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18-11-2005, 07:59 AM
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But you are the one who makes topics that shouldn't be there.
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18-11-2005, 08:02 AM
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well troubleshooting and compatibility are basicly the same thing
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