07-12-2005, 06:37 AM | #1 | ||
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hehe well I got a new pc (built it myself) recently and blah very nice but as blood players will know im having trouble getting older games to work on the B- thing. Christmas is coming so what im a gonna do is get another HDD (SATA) format it in XP, and install windpws 3.1 and DOS 5 on it so I can dual boot!
the entire project depends on a relative having windows 3.1... Ill be playing with MS office version 4.3 in no time. |
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07-12-2005, 06:48 AM | #2 | ||
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07-12-2005, 07:58 AM | #3 | ||
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If you install WinXP on a machine, creating a partition for a different OS later will not work.
Format, install Win3.1, then create a partition, and install XP on it (which will automatically reformat it to NTFS) |
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07-12-2005, 09:04 AM | #4 | ||
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Well, I think Windows XP can format the HD in "normal" FAT32.... I mean, it suggests you to format in NTFS but you can change it... Well, at least I formated my HD like that (FAT32) :whistle:
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07-12-2005, 09:14 AM | #5 | ||
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win 3.11 might not work with fat32
basicly you need an underlaying dos that support it. Don't know if 5.0 supports it
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07-12-2005, 11:02 AM | #6 | ||
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Definitely not. I once had bought a FAT-32 formatted HDD (second-hand) and DOS 6.2 did not recognize it.
Oh, and to my knowledge only WinXP Pro does have the ability to format in both FAT32 and NTFS. |
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07-12-2005, 01:40 PM | #7 | ||
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07-12-2005, 04:43 PM | #8 | ||
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I have now a 2 gig partition drive e: in FAT format. Hope 3.1 recognises it.. I DID have an old copy of windows 95 with its certificate of authenticity n everything, it came with an old computer that exists no more..
cant seem to find it though I formatted the partition ect with norton partition manager. I know that our old win95 comp used FAT |
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08-12-2005, 02:27 PM | #9 | ||
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FAT 16 is NOT THE SAME as FAT 32. FAT 32 support was introduced in Windows 95 "B" (aka OSR 2), and it was not present in Windows 3.x. As a side note, I doubt 3.11 will recognize 2-gig partitions either. For FAT 16, the partition size should not exceed 800 MB, otherwise you'll be wasting a lot of space. |
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15-12-2005, 01:20 PM | #10 | ||
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EDIT: Well, I think one should be able to read before trying to make an expedient statement
(I mean nobody else, but me...) sry there |
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