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installing Win 98/ME in Win XP
Name: Vanessa Date: December 28, 2001 at 11:20:00 Pacific
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I bought a computer preinstalled with Win XP. However, most of my applications are in Win 98 and I could not use/install them in my new computer. How do I install Win 98 or ME in preinstalled Win XP OS? I could not locate my CD-ROM drive in DOS, so installing through DOS is not an option. I could not even run fdisk in Win XP. Any suggestions? I want to have both Win XP and 98 in my computer! Thanks a lot!!
Name: matti Date: December 28, 2001 at 11:41:57 Pacific
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well, you have lots of options here :)
have you got a 2nd hard drive? ... you can use partition magic to partition your existing drive, the i suggest to use a boot manager, that allows you to hide the XP partition (or look up the 1000s of web sites about dual boot), then install windows ME ... make sure you have all the ME drivers for your hardware handy (at least the modem drivers :) ... and consider the usage of a drive cloning program, in case something goes wrong ...
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Response Number 2
Name: Aaron Date: December 28, 2001 at 11:45:04 Pacific
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Use a win98 boot disk and start with cdrom support to get the cdrom to work in dos. You shoud keep winxp and find updates for the 98 stuff that doesn't work. Winxp is much better, keep it.
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Response Number 3
Name: jmattison Date: December 28, 2001 at 14:22:37 Pacific
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I don't understand. If your programs are Win98 programs you can't load them from DOS. They should load fine in XP. I've even loaded some programs that were from Win 3.1 with no problems. Once laoded if you have problems running them you can right click on the executible file. Select properties and then select the compatability tab. Check the box, Run in compatability mode. Then select Win98/ME.
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Response Number 4
Name: Paul Verschoyle Date: January 27, 2002 at 14:25:32 Pacific
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I have formatted the HDD drive and tried to load windows XP from the boot disk of Win Me I keep getting that I cannot run this programme from dos command Pleas help
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Response Number 5
Name: Laurent Date: February 10, 2002 at 16:18:51 Pacific
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Hello Vanessa, in fact I am triyng to do the same, I have the diamond rio and it dont work on win xp and of course diamond ignore the problem...
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Response Number 6
Name: Lindy Carney Date: February 13, 2002 at 18:20:36 Pacific
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I too am trying to do this. I can get cd rom support in dos but just how do I install it to my drive? Thanks for any help.
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Response Number 7
Name: J Date: February 15, 2002 at 12:05:19 Pacific
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go to bootdisk.com and download the 6-disk winXP bootdiskettes that should make it so you can run the cdroms in "dos"
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