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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: hughii on July 05, 2010, 05:10:18 PM

Title: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: hughii on July 05, 2010, 05:10:18 PM

I have 2 hard drives.(master-slave. I would like to run XP on Master and ME on slave. Is this possible and how do I do it? Thank you
Hugh

Title: Re: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: Computer_Commando on July 05, 2010, 05:33:52 PM

Sure is possible!!  Many do it.  You will need a boot manager or use the BIOS setup to change boot order.  If XP is NTFS & ME is FAT32, WinME will not recognize WinXP, but WinXP will recognize WinME, no matter which one you boot from.

Title: Re: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: patio on July 05, 2010, 07:00:08 PM

I have to ask...any reason you need WinME ? ?

Title: Re: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: hughii on July 05, 2010, 07:46:23 PM

I have some old dos games I want to check out

Title: Re: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: 2x3i5x on July 05, 2010, 11:01:34 PM

Quote from: hughii on July 05, 2010, 07:46:23 PM

I have some old dos games I want to check out

on the winXP, try DosBox emulator (http://www.dosbox.com/) to see if it would be able to handle your dos game you want. If not, then you'll need the WinME

Title: Re: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: thelaymanscomputer on July 07, 2010, 08:55:10 AM

Another alternative would be to create a virtual machine and install ME on that. I normally wouldn't recommend a virtual machine for games, but seeing as they are only DOS games, performance should not be a problem.

Good Luck

Title: Re: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: BC_Programmer on July 07, 2010, 12:11:21 PM

Quote from: thelaymanscomputer on July 07, 2010, 08:55:10 AM

Another alternative would be to create a virtual machine and install ME on that. I normally wouldn't recommend a virtual machine for games, but seeing as they are only DOS games, performance should not be a problem.

Good Luck

True, and if he's going the Virtual Machine route he may as well use an Actual DOS installation rather then a windows one.

Title: Re: Using 2 operating systems
Post by: hughii on July 08, 2010, 08:58:37 AM

Thanks to everyone for all the useful information. Very much appreciated.
John