[Papyrus-L] dual boot

["Bjørn, Per de Place"]

Dear Jake/Leon

There are probably numerous sophisticated ways of doing this, including
partition management and boot controllers.
I have done it once in a very lo-tech way by installing an additional
harddrive on the machine, modifying the boot sequence in the BIOS setup to
point to the new drive. When prompted, install WinXP on the new drive. When
you need the Win95, simply re-boot using the old drive as boot drive.
There may be a slight confusion in drive letters, but XP runs OK with e.g.
D:\windows as win-dir.
Note that if you NTFS format the new drive you will not be able to see it
from Win95.

Cheers
/per

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Per de Place Bjørn, Ph. D.
GBIF Programme Officer, Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known Organisms
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GBIF, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø
E-mail: pdpbjorn at gbif.org, Web: www.gbif.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Jacobson [mailto:jake at museumsnc.co.za]
> Sent: 15. januar 2003 11:58
> To: papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
> Subject: [Papyrus-L] dual boot
> 
> Does someone really knowledgable out there know whether it is possible to
> have a dual XP and Win95 system on one computer? I have to upgrade one of
my
> machines but would like to keep my old W95 with its word processor and
> papyrus together as well as a few other (brilliant) DOS programs.
> And how does one do it? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Feel
> free to help/reply to me personally if necessary.
> Many, many thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
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