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Resurrecting a Legacy X86 PC..
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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1019650" data-attributes="member: 325666"><p>Tonight I finally got Win3.1 - Win95OS2 & WinME to coexist on an 80 gb hard drive ..</p><p>This was not easy ..</p><p>I have already managed 95/98/and ME to coexist ...BUT ..they all had one thing in common ..</p><p>Fat32 ..</p><p>This latest offering has a FAT16 partition sitting alongside 2 x fat32 LBAs ..</p><p>Again using GAG which will hide the OSs not in use ..</p><p>Problem 1 ...95 and 98 tend not to want to coexist ..as they are to all intents and purposes ..the same Operating system..</p><p>So the previous 3 OS drive was a minor miracle ..</p><p>This one was equally tricky as ME did not want to be installed as it sees itself a potential upgrade to win95 ..</p><p>Win3.1 simply doesn't want to be a part of this ..it being fat 16</p><p>So ..</p><p>my method is and was to build each OS on seperate drives ...then using BART PE ..which is basically a stand alone OS on a disc which is bootable and can sit outside the 'systems' with USB support allowed me to dump the entire operating systems (including invisible or hidden files) to seperate USB sticks ..</p><p>Partitions are then created as needed to suit each operating system (primary drives all) ...and then the entire OS system written to each partition as needed ...from the stored files on the required pen drive</p><p>The partitions remains unbootable BUT they are all technically drive C</p><p>GAG is then applied as a sticking plaster to the MBR ..making each OS bootable when selected by making That partition and that partition ONLY bootable..</p><p>Hope this makes sense ..</p><p>But it DOES work ..</p><p>rgds</p><p>VS[ATTACH=full]108328[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 1019650, member: 325666"] Tonight I finally got Win3.1 - Win95OS2 & WinME to coexist on an 80 gb hard drive .. This was not easy .. I have already managed 95/98/and ME to coexist ...BUT ..they all had one thing in common .. Fat32 .. This latest offering has a FAT16 partition sitting alongside 2 x fat32 LBAs .. Again using GAG which will hide the OSs not in use .. Problem 1 ...95 and 98 tend not to want to coexist ..as they are to all intents and purposes ..the same Operating system.. So the previous 3 OS drive was a minor miracle .. This one was equally tricky as ME did not want to be installed as it sees itself a potential upgrade to win95 .. Win3.1 simply doesn't want to be a part of this ..it being fat 16 So .. my method is and was to build each OS on seperate drives ...then using BART PE ..which is basically a stand alone OS on a disc which is bootable and can sit outside the 'systems' with USB support allowed me to dump the entire operating systems (including invisible or hidden files) to seperate USB sticks .. Partitions are then created as needed to suit each operating system (primary drives all) ...and then the entire OS system written to each partition as needed ...from the stored files on the required pen drive The partitions remains unbootable BUT they are all technically drive C GAG is then applied as a sticking plaster to the MBR ..making each OS bootable when selected by making That partition and that partition ONLY bootable.. Hope this makes sense .. But it DOES work .. rgds VS[ATTACH=full]108328[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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