[Coco] Emulator problems under XP

[Stephen Blunt]

All the resources on the internet basically require you to start again from
scratch. Put dos in logical partition drive C and what ever else you want in
the rest of the drive.

Here is an idea. Install your second drive. Fdisk it and format it with a dos
boot disk. When you try to install dos it should be able to see the NTFS
drive and treat your secondary drive as drive C:.

Alternatively, create a boot disk or CD to load up dos. Then read/write to
drive D: any dos stuff you need to do.

Partition magic has been around for almost 10 years (I think) and is proven a
safe and effective tool. I believe the latest version is about 8.0.

There are lots of recourses on the net for multiboot systems.

Stephen Blunt

> 
> OK, well I do not feel much like deleting, reformatting and 
> partitioning my main HD, so this 'partition magic'-tool seems 
> like a good option. I also do have a second HD in my WinXP 
> machine that I transplanted once from my old and dead Win98 
> machine. Are you saying that  I can install DOS 7 on that 
> secondary HD (perhaps partition first)? How would I make the 
> system boot from that HD instead of the main one then? Will I 
> still be able to access my CD-drives?
> 
> Cheers,
> Fedor
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen Blunt" <sblunt at agsecorp.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 9:39 PM
> Subject: RE: [Coco] Emulator problems under XP
> 
> 
> > Or just add a second harddrive. Much easier and safer IMHO.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> I agree it is safer to add a second HD. But I am ALWAYS 
> restricted by the cost of a second HD. But as Dos can only 
> address 2GB, it is hard to find smaller HD, and usually you 
> end up needing to partition it anyway (currently I have a 9GB 
> drive split into 5 partitions).
> 
> A lot of older Dos stuff didn't understand drives other then 
> C: for HD and
> D:
> for Cdrom. But that only affects people like me who are 
> trying to run 15 year old PC software on  modern pc's. Often 
> I find it is easier to run an emulator for other systems (eg 
> coco) then to get older PC software to work.