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How can I operate multple operating systems on one computer?
I've got an HP laptop computer with XP media operating system. I have a separate partition outside of this OS setup of about 10,000 mb. I want to install windows '95 on this separate partition. Is this possible and if yes how can I decide which OS is loaded at power on? I do not want to boot them both at once, I want to use one or the other at a time. And I have reasons for '95 that I will not elaborate on.
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- one way is with VM ware.
- Buy a program like partition magic to divide your hard drive into multiple partitions. Then install a different OS on each partition. Good Luck
- You can... When you install multiple OSs, a boot manager kicks in when you power on, and you have to decide which one to load. After several seconds with no response it boots the default one (Win XP I assume). Why windows 95??? Go with Linux.
- I did it with Linux and Windows and had a front end gui to choose the OS.
- http://www.virtualbox.org/ I thing this is what you need.
- never done it backwards, i run win98 win2k and xp on the same computer. if you install from the older to newer it gives you choices while installing and screen shows up at boot showing all operating systems you can install win 95 on other partition but only win 95 will work unless you find someone that knows how to write a boot ini file
- You might want to consider the virtual machine suggestions made above, because dual-booting XP and 95 requires you to install 95 first. Dual-boot instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306559
- Well if you want windows 95 to work with XP you better make sure XP uses the old FAT file system and not the new NTFS.
