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> Problem is, if I upgrade I will have Windows 98/2, and I
> understand a crippled
> version of DOS. I also won't have my current hard working and reliable
> Windows 3.11
> OS to rely on.
>
> I still need to support earlier DOS and Win 3.11 programs
>
> Is it possible to take my existing hard drive from my old PC,
> install it as a
> secondary drive in the new machine and obtain some software
> somewhere that will
> allow me the option of booting from the old drive for DOS and Win 311 or
> from the new
> drive for Win9x ? and do ant new PC program development with later Delphi
> versions ?
To dualboot you will need something like PartitionMagic Boot Manager (Win98
itself does not support dual boot to 3.1)
The alternative which I use is to boot 3.1 from a floppy disk. Details at
http://patrick.dunford.com/support/, but you will need to have the 3.1 files
on a Fat16 partition, which presumably is the case on your current volume.
If this old drive ends up with a different drive letter in your system than
what it had before, that is the beginning of many problems.
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http://patrick.dunford.com/
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