you could put the old disk in as the primary drive - Win3.11 is not as
fussy about motherboards etc as 95 and NT - and install 98 (if you need
it) on the second disk - it should boot OK.
95 HAD an option, when
Starting Windows 95...
came up, press F8 - it gives you an option to boot to a command prompt
(which is not broken, might be missing a dos util or 2 tho? I havn't
touched a 95 or 98 machine since NT4 came out), boot to the previous OS
etc.
Just stick with FAT16, and partions <4gig.
N
Patrick Dunford wrote:
>
> snip
> > 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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