[Coco] Emulator problems under XP

Robert Emery theother_bob at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 1 15:20:55 EDT 2004



--- Stephen Blunt <sblunt at agsecorp.com> wrote:


> You would probably need to create a dual boot system. The easiest way is to

> create a 2Gb partition and call it C:. Install dos here. Then on the remain

> HD create drive D: and put winME, Win9X, NT, 2K or XP. I found with NT/2K/XP

> having drive D as NTFS very convenient. XP is extremely friendly with dual

> boot and will leave your C drive alone (if you tell it to).

>

> This way when you boot to dos. It only sees drive C, as it can't see NTFS,

> and defaults you CD to D which then becomes an extremely standard setup for

> DOS.


I always set my CD-Roms to Z, going down... stays constant that way no matter
how many drives you add.


> For those who don't want to rebuild the entire HD, you can use partition

> magic, or similar, to create/change partitions without interrupting anything.


Or just add a second harddrive. Much easier and safer IMHO.

Bob



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