Dual boot...

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I am curious to know who hard a dual boot is, I hae a hard drive with XP on it, but for work pourposes I need to be able to use windows 95..Why may you ask??? Well I have to use a feature called Drvspace on ata flash cards.. To do this you have to use 95 as it is the only OS that supports this.I have to "Mount the card to make it bootable in portable devices...Like your SanDisk card could be used to run your OS from a flash card....What I would like to do Is take an old 10gig drive and slave it..or Do I use cable jumpers on both my drives???I know their is software for this but I know that you dont really need it..Any help or suggestions would be appreciated...
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I used to do the dual-boot thing. You should have Win95 installed on one partition first, then install XP. Choose advanced options and install on other partition. XP will do the rest.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
thank you, thats kinda what I figured..
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why dual boot at all? Just to use Win95? go to Microsoft and try out Virtual PC 2004. If you have a few apps to run in Win95 that will not run on anything else, and have a decent amount of resouces, you can load a Virtual PC, and run it from withing Windows XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4A15008C-3E10-4C54-BCD5-ADC1E780715F&displaylang=en
Demo Link

or You can try VMWare, Just as nice

http://www.vmware.com/
VMWare.com

http://www.vmware.com/download/
Download Demo Link

They are both fairly decent programs, just be sure in using them, that you install the Virtual additions into each Guest Os (it's point and click)
also the Machines Hardware is virtual so they are relatively stable, support drag and drop between guest OS and Host. Pretty fun to play with, and great for testing out problems in a clean Os environment, without affecting your machine, and you can set them up to discard changes, upon reboot. So if you get to not liking somethin you can discard the changes you made to the virtual machine. I love 'em and could go on all day.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BTW the only real difference between MS and VMWare is VMWare allows more actual access to Host resources.
By example I mean USB, and SCSI Drives..MS does not support using external scsi devices and USB stuff. VMWare
seems to be a little faster in usage, but the screen resolution in MSVPC, can be reized dynamically, and is a fixed resolution in VMWare.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well I know what you guys are talking about, However I work on Data Collection PCs typically mounted on Forklifts and Industrial equipment. These PCs use a 85meg to 660 meg PCMCIA flash drive..Now to use these cards in a VMU(vehicle mounted unit) The PCMCIA card has to be "Mounted" now using a VirtualPc proggy you can not compress and mount these drives and make them bootable..I run Win2k on a 400meg to600meg card..Now to do this I have to use win95, any other OS will "fight" to not Compress and mount these drives properly..Belive me. we have tried for weeks to come up with simpler solutions, but they generaly fail..I can load XP and run a"Light" version of these..All these PCs do is use a barcode reader or scanner to collect inventory control data..My server is literly onl 1.2gigsand it controls the data flow for an entire manufacturing facility..Think Morton Salt..Think Quicksilver, these companys and FritoLay use equipment that is over 20 years old to do their job..Kinda if it works dont change the plan..So I would like to create a actual triple boot system..I would like to run 95,2k and Xp on 2 drives opn one PC...Whew!!