Dual boot of sorts

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My new computer has Windows XP pre-installed by the supplier. I put the hard
drive from my old PC in as a slave to serve as a backup device for important
files and documents.

Some of my old games no longer work in WinXP - the DOS-based games such as
Duke3D, Doom and so on. It would be fun to play them once in a while, so
what's to stop me installing an older OS on my slave drive and using a boot
manager to choose between it and XP?

Has anyone done this, and which boot manager would you recommend? What
dangers do I need to watch out for? I am NON expert and don't want to muck
up my system!

John

 

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My personal choice is Boot It Next Generation, www.bootitng.com. Full featured boot and partition manager, and half the price of Partition Magic.

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"John Rampling" <j.rampling@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:R1wRc.268$b17.50@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
> My new computer has Windows XP pre-installed by the supplier. I put the hard
> drive from my old PC in as a slave to serve as a backup device for important
> files and documents.
>
> Some of my old games no longer work in WinXP - the DOS-based games such as
> Duke3D, Doom and so on. It would be fun to play them once in a while, so
> what's to stop me installing an older OS on my slave drive and using a boot
> manager to choose between it and XP?
>
> Has anyone done this, and which boot manager would you recommend? What
> dangers do I need to watch out for? I am NON expert and don't want to muck
> up my system!
>
> John
>
>

 

[Byte]

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Free trial, all you need for possibly a one-time use:
Download BootIt Next Generation 1.62a Free Trial - A partition and multi-boot
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/4/13-4-5.shtml

"John Rampling" wrote:

> My new computer has Windows XP pre-installed by the supplier. I put the hard
> drive from my old PC in as a slave to serve as a backup device for important
> files and documents.
>
> Some of my old games no longer work in WinXP - the DOS-based games such as
> Duke3D, Doom and so on. It would be fun to play them once in a while, so
> what's to stop me installing an older OS on my slave drive and using a boot
> manager to choose between it and XP?
>
> Has anyone done this, and which boot manager would you recommend? What
> dangers do I need to watch out for? I am NON expert and don't want to muck
> up my system!
>
> John
>
>
>

 

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Thank you Doug and Byte for your suggestions.
Can I take it for granted that if I install (say) Win98 on my D: drive it
will NOT affect the existing install of Win XP on my C: drive? If there's
any chance of this happening I will steer clear of the idea - it's just not
worth it for a few old games!

John

"John Rampling" <j.rampling@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:R1wRc.268$b17.50@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
> My new computer has Windows XP pre-installed by the supplier. I put the
> hard drive from my old PC in as a slave to serve as a backup device for
> important files and documents.
>
> Some of my old games no longer work in WinXP - the DOS-based games such as
> Duke3D, Doom and so on. It would be fun to play them once in a while, so
> what's to stop me installing an older OS on my slave drive and using a
> boot manager to choose between it and XP?
>
> Has anyone done this, and which boot manager would you recommend? What
> dangers do I need to watch out for? I am NON expert and don't want to muck
> up my system!
>
> John
>
>