External Hard Drive

[magicandmight]

I am pretty sure of the answer but I want to check. I have Windows XP Pro on my desktop, the problem is that I have a bunch of old 98 games that wont work...I am sure this has happened to a bunch of people. Now on my computer the hard drive is 20 gigs and so I dont want to dual partition it. Will loading Win 98 on an external HD work?

 

[DJCyber2101]

Possibly...it's worth a try. But I would try to run the games in XP using compatibility mode first.

DJCyber

 

[chriseubank]

You should be able to do that, and then go and edit your boot.ini (be careful, you can break your machine) to point to the second installation to boot from.

I would recommend checking the websites for the games in question, as a lot of the time they have forums there with people who have had similar issues which may have already been addressed. There could be a fix right there for you already

Hope this helps!
C

 

[magicandmight]

Well the main one is Magic and Might 7....but 3DO is out of business so...so I should just put in an internal hard drive that is 250GB and dual partition it then?

 

[chriseubank]

Take a look at this thread:


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http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread21715-1.html

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[magicandmight]

Thx I had gone to the main website and search for the thread and found. Thx Ill try it once I get home from work.