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Two Operating Systems W98 / Wxp
I have W-98 in my secondary PC. However, W-98 does not support recent jump
(pen) drives, thus I am plannig upgrade to Wxp. Have boxed Wxp upgrade version but instructions indicate that the upgrade will "replace" previous OS. I have several important W-98 program that will like to keep, but they will not work properly under Wxp. Thus, will like to keep W-98 as an alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? |
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Two Operating Systems W98 / Wxp
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:27:01 -0700, Lorenzoi
put finger to keyboard and composed: I have W-98 in my secondary PC. However, W-98 does not support recent jump (pen) drives, thus I am plannig upgrade to Wxp. Have boxed Wxp upgrade version but instructions indicate that the upgrade will "replace" previous OS. I have several important W-98 program that will like to keep, but they will not work properly under Wxp. Thus, will like to keep W-98 as an alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? Have you tried the Maximus Decim driver set: http://rapidshare.com/files/66648662/nusb32e.exe.html - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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Two Operating Systems W98 / Wxp
"Lorenzoi" wrote in message ... I have W-98 in my secondary PC. However, W-98 does not support recent jump (pen) drives, thus I am plannig upgrade to Wxp. Have boxed Wxp upgrade version but instructions indicate that the upgrade will "replace" previous OS. I have several important W-98 program that will like to keep, but they will not work properly under Wxp. Thus, will like to keep W-98 as an alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? Install XP on a second partition and dual boot |
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"Lorenzoi" wrote in message
... I have W-98 in my secondary PC. However, W-98 does not support recent jump (pen) drives, thus I am plannig upgrade to Wxp. Have boxed Wxp upgrade version but instructions indicate that the upgrade will "replace" previous OS. I have several important W-98 program that will like to keep, but they will not work properly under Wxp. Thus, will like to keep W-98 as an alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? WinXP has a special "compatibility" feature designed to make earlier apps (Win3.1 or Win95 or Win98) run under XP. Each app can be thus configured via / Properties. This system is not guaranteed but worth testing in your situation. A cheap alternative (at $100-$150 for a used XP PC in good order) is a network linking a Win98 to an XP PC, also useful for backup to large-sized drives etc. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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http://www.mdgx.com/spx/NUSB.EXE
Be sure to scan all downloads for malware first. wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:21:58 +1000, Franc Zabkar wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:27:01 -0700, Lorenzoi put finger to keyboard and composed: I have W-98 in my secondary PC. However, W-98 does not support recent jump (pen) drives, thus I am plannig upgrade to Wxp. Have boxed Wxp upgrade version but instructions indicate that the upgrade will "replace" previous OS. I have several important W-98 program that will like to keep, but they will not work properly under Wxp. Thus, will like to keep W-98 as an alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? Have you tried the Maximus Decim driver set: http://rapidshare.com/files/66648662/nusb32e.exe.html - Franc Zabkar I use this program and it works great. Just plug in any USB device and it works. The link provided above does NOT have the download on their site. Clicking on the link does nothing. I tried in both Firefox and IE. Maybe their site is having technical issues, or????? Maybe someone else knows another download site for this file. |
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Two Operating Systems W98 / Wxp
"Lorenzoi" wrote in message ... I have W-98 in my secondary PC. However, W-98 does not support recent jump (pen) drives, thus I am plannig upgrade to Wxp. Have boxed Wxp upgrade version but instructions indicate that the upgrade will "replace" previous OS. I have several important W-98 program that will like to keep, but they will not work properly under Wxp. Thus, will like to keep W-98 as an alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? Make two Win98 partitions. Put your programs on both partitions. Upgrade one of them to XP. Don't allow the XP install to mess with the other partition unless it does so to implement a dual boot menu. |
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Two Operating Systems W98 / Wxp
Consider buying another hard drive to have XP on and use Windows 98 on your
primary hard drive and 98 gets installed first and XP next on the appropriate second hard drive. I would use Fat32 file system for Windows 98 Second Edition and NTFS file system for XP. Windows 98 Second Edition will not see XP and that is good. Windows XP will see Windows 98 Second Edition but do not touch Windows 98 Second Edition with Windows XP because you could mess it up and only make any changes to Windows 98 Second Edition from within Windows XP Professional when you have a problem with Windows 98 SE. This is the way I roll it at least on my multi-boot computer. "Lorenzoi" wrote: I have W-98 in my secondary PC. However, W-98 does not support recent jump (pen) drives, thus I am plannig upgrade to Wxp. Have boxed Wxp upgrade version but instructions indicate that the upgrade will "replace" previous OS. I have several important W-98 program that will like to keep, but they will not work properly under Wxp. Thus, will like to keep W-98 as an alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? |
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In message , FromTheRafters
writes [] alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? Make two Win98 partitions. Put your programs on both partitions. Upgrade one of them to XP. Don't allow the XP install to mess with the other partition unless it does so to implement a dual boot menu. How do you stop the XP install "messing with" the existing installation? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for thoughts on PCs. ** "********," said Pooh, being more forthright than usual. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , FromTheRafters writes [] alternative OS. Q: How can I installe Wxp and keep W-98 to be used when needed?? Make two Win98 partitions. Put your programs on both partitions. Upgrade one of them to XP. Don't allow the XP install to mess with the other partition unless it does so to implement a dual boot menu. How do you stop the XP install "messing with" the existing installation? It's an upgrade - of course it will "mess" with the existing installation. If XPs setup program is too 'ham-fisted' to install on a pre-partitioned harddrive - use another partitioning tool. I can't do tests here anymore because my test computers are gone now. My XP machine has an OEM version and reloads from an EISA Configuration partition (which stomps on any partitions I make for dual booting purposes). From my reading on XPs setup partitioning tool - it can install XP on your choice of partition. At the very least, you should be able to install the XP upgrade to 98 on the entire drive and then use linux or partition magic to repartition it making room for the 98 install. I suggested having 98 already on the other partition because I heard XPs multiboot manager is picky about the order in which OSes are installed. LILO or GRUB should be able to handle XP and 98 (which it will call DOS) and you could have Linux as well for maintenance purposes. |
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