Topic: I need help..
started by: joelthegreat
Posted by joelthegreat on Jun. 29 2002,01:20
I'm not fully knowledgable on every aspect of computing yet.Have a small delima.
I have a HP Pavillion 520w with WinXP installed and shit, I want to put win98SE or winME on there to run some games that XP won't run.
I do not want to reformat the hard drive because I don't have the backup capability's to do so.
I do have another 6 gig hd that I can and want to put in there, if I have win98 on the 6gig'er how can I set it up to give me the option to boot between the 2 different hard drives and operating systems?
Any help is well appreciated. and thank you.
Posted by just_dave on Jun. 29 2002,01:23
set the 6 gig as slave to start .. then go looking for a program called system commander(?) lets you start with a boot menu, probablly the easiest way to do it in that case
dave
Posted by coldfusion on Jun. 29 2002,03:03
if you have XP and you just want to use games then use XP's compatibility mode or whatever for win98 or winme.::edit::
or maybe i misunderstood your question.
Posted by Beldurin on Jun. 29 2002,03:16
if you slave the 6 gig hdd, you should be able to boot from the CD and install 98/ME on the second drive.XP should have a boot loader (correct me if I'm wrong, folks) which should then give you the option of which OS to start.
I'm leaving out some of the specifics, but that should be enough to get you rolling. Just experiment...that's the best way to learn just about anything computer-related anyway.
Posted by coldfusion on Jun. 29 2002,03:44
ok, where did i go wrong w/ my previous post??
Posted by Beldurin on Jun. 29 2002,03:45
| Quote (coldfusion @ 28 June 2002,21:44) |
| ok, where did i go wrong w/ my previous post?? |
you might not have...I don't no jack about the compatibility mode...I was just answering what he specifically asked
Posted by coldfusion on Jun. 29 2002,03:47
compatibility mode is where you make XP run a program as it would run in a previous Windows OS.
Posted by Beldurin on Jun. 29 2002,04:11
I know what it is, just haven't used it so I'm not sure how well it works.
Posted by coldfusion on Jun. 29 2002,04:14
it works well w/ all of my *older* software.about 25 programs, games, other utils.
Posted by RadioActive on Jun. 29 2002,15:41
XP's comatibility mode is still not sufficient half the time. i has a few games not run properly even in compatibility mode, and those that do, i feel a bit of a performace loss. as for dual boot, as long as the drive with windows 98 is set as a slave you can use dualboot feature that comes standard with windows XP. that would envolve a little bit of reading and editing file boot.ini in your root directory. there are other ways, you can for example after instalationg of XP boot from the cd again and go to recovery console. i am sure it's possible in recovery console to do something like "repair boor sequence" or something of that sort and it will check for operating systems you are running and automatically create a proper boot.ini for you. that is the easiest way in my opinio, but there are way too many third party programs that would do dual boot for you.
Posted by joelthegreat on Jun. 29 2002,17:56
Thank you all for your help.The compatability mode thing doesn't work with all my games, that is because some of the games just do not like the NT file system. And I agree the ones that the compatability mode work for seem to run a little sluggish.
I think I got it figured out...somewhat...now.
THank you all again.
Posted by just_dave on Jun. 29 2002,18:46
| Quote (RadioActive @ 28 June 2002,22:41) |
| XP's comatibility mode is still not sufficient half the time. i has a few games not run properly even in compatibility mode, and those that do, i feel a bit of a performace loss. as for dual boot, as long as the drive with windows 98 is set as a slave you can use dualboot feature that comes standard with windows XP. that would envolve a little bit of reading and editing file boot.ini in your root directory. there are other ways, you can for example after instalationg of XP boot from the cd again and go to recovery console. i am sure it's possible in recovery console to do something like "repair boor sequence" or something of that sort and it will check for operating systems you are running and automatically create a proper boot.ini for you. that is the easiest way in my opinio, but there are way too many third party programs that would do dual boot for you. |
dayum ... didn't think about that .. good show RA .. now you got me wondering... have you tried it that way... recovery console and all?
dave
Posted by RadioActive on Jun. 29 2002,19:28
yeah. i installed linux before and the didn't want it. so i formatted the drive without thinking and couln't start lilo anymore. i had to resort to recovery console. from there i did repare MBR (to get rid of lilo and put windows boot instead) and then had to use the other thing to make new boot.ini so that i can multiboot between my XP and 2000 Advanced Server.
Posted by CNCJake on Jul. 01 2002,22:06
dual boot by bios settings. that way if you remove one HD it dosnt freak out the MBR.
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 02 2002,05:05
that right there is why I love DETNET.lurve you guys.
Posted by ^Oni^ on Jul. 02 2002,14:05
Bah...Win98 startup disk.
a:\fdisk /mbr
Faster than recovery console.