[Coco] Emulator problems under XP

[Stephen Blunt]

You would probably need to create a dual boot system. The easiest way is to
create a 2Gb partition and call it C:. Install dos here. Then on the remain
HD create drive D: and put winME, Win9X, NT, 2K or XP. I found with NT/2K/XP
having drive D as NTFS very convenient. XP is extremely friendly with dual
boot and will leave your C drive alone (if you tell it to).

This way when you boot to dos. It only sees drive C, as it can't see NTFS,
and defaults you CD to D which then becomes an extremely standard setup for
DOS.

I use this setup to play all my old dos and win 3.1 games, of which I have a
massive collection (collecting actively for 17 years).

For those who don't want to rebuild the entire HD, you can use partition
magic, or similar, to create/change partitions without interrupting anything.

Best regards,

Stephen Blunt
Customer Support Engineer
AGSE Corporation
Phone: + (562) 906-9300  ext. 171
Fax: + (562) 906-9308
E-Mail: sblunt at agsecorp.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Neil Morrison
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:47 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Emulator problems under XP
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure myself, but from Windows ME and up you can't 
> normally boot into pure DOS, however you need to do that to 
> flash some DC/DVD drives!
> 
> Neil
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen Blunt" <sblunt at agsecorp.com>
> 
> 
> Wow! That is exactly what I have been looking for, for my dos 
> box at home. It does say that it is ms-dos. Was this 
> originally released by micro$oft or is it a hack of 6.22 and 
> the dos running under win9x?
> 
> > http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/index.htm
> 
> 
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