I would like to run windows 95 and XP, on the same computer Options

[Billy]

There is an old game I want to play, called Betrayal At Krondor, that refuses to run on windows XP due to it's 16 bit nature. Oh, and the fact that it is a DOS game. So instead of booting up my old machine that's locked deep away in my closet and switching back and forth from it to my main, I think it would easier to just have two operating systems on this computer. However, I'm not entirely sure how to do that. I know some of you guys have done it before and was wondering if I could get a little advice.

[zetec]

A) have you tried using compatibility settings first? right click on the application and go to properties, it's under there.

B) you'd probably have to resize your XP partition, since 95 only supports FAT16 (I think FAT32 was introduced in 98), and editing partition sizes (especially under windows) is NOT for the faint of heart. Chances are you don't have any unpartitioned space just lying around.

C) google the game online, there's a chance that someone has an XP/2000 fix for it. Lots of classic games (BaK definately qualifies as a popular one) have a good amount of devotees out there that'll reverse engineer them until they find a way to make them work.

D) Look for a win95 emulator, or perhaps an image to use with a virtual pc application.

[Billy]

A) have you tried using compatibility settings first? right click on the application and go to properties, it's under there.

you'd probably have to resize your XP partition, since 95 only supports FAT16 (I think FAT32 was introduced in 98), and editing partition sizes (especially under windows) is NOT for the faint of heart. Chances are you don't have any unpartitioned space just lying around.

C) google the game online, there's a chance that someone has an XP/2000 fix for it. Lots of classic games (BaK definately qualifies as a popular one) have a good amount of devotees out there that'll reverse engineer them until they find a way to make them work.

D) Look for a win95 emulator, or perhaps an image to use with a virtual pc application.

Yeah, I absolutely could not get BAK to work. I tried the compatibility under properties. I tried editing the config.nt and autoexec.nt files, that did not work. I've searched far and wide, and I finally discovered that SP2 makes it impossible to run the game via XP.

Is there anyway to run an older computer through a newer one?

[leg]

make ur partition smaller at the end of the disk and at the end make a new one that reasonable enough for your needs in the FAT16 allocation

[zetec]

make ur partition smaller at the end of the disk and at the end make a new one that reasonable enough for your needs in the FAT16 allocation

problem is, he needs a big chunk of contiguous free space, which isn't how hard drives (especially under windows) are in the habit of storing they're data. Last time I resized a partition, the actual data stored on the drive was about 36GB on a 100GB partition, and after countless defragmentations, the largest chunk I could get contiguous was I think something like 6gb.

He'd be better off trying to find a Win95 image, downloading a virtual PC application, such as Microsoft Virtual PC (or something else, iunno the specifics on it) and installing win95 on the virtual drive.

[pebkac]

you'd probably have to resize your XP partition, since 95 only supports FAT16 (I think FAT32 was introduced in 98), and editing partition sizes (especially under windows) is NOT for the faint of heart. Chances are you don't have any unpartitioned space just lying around.

I actually believe later versions of Win95 supported FAT32. Win98 included a FAT32 convertor though.

[dauss]

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