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Dual boot Windows 95 and Windows Me
Name: Tarun Date: July 17, 2001 at 10:41:39 Pacific
Comment:
I have Windows Me on my primary HDD. I want to install Windows 95 on my secondary HDD. I couldnt get any softwares which i could download from the net. Is it possible to do that without any software, is it safe. I have some games which work only on Windows 95. Will my system slow down after having a dual boot. I have a PII 350 64mb RAM unbranded system. Help me out. Reply to my email address a.s.a.p Thank you
Name: Jimat Date: July 20, 2001 at 15:30:39 Pacific
Reply:
Sorry I don't do email replies. You have to boot from a hard drive that set a a "Master". If you have two hard drives on the same controller you will have one Master and one Slave. Computers don't care what operating system is on the Slave. The only way you could pull this off would be to change the jumpers on the hard drives so the second one becomes the Master and the first one becomes the Slave when you want to boot from the second operating system. Not much fun. An alternative would be to boot with a bootable floppy that has the basics of the other o/s and see if that works. Probably not, but it depends on the games. Anyway I suspect that those games will work with Win98 which is MUCH better than Win95. Have you actually tried to run these games in WinME? I've been able to run Doom on mine & that's pretty basic DOS
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