[carnutbill67]

I know this can be done but will all windows OS work? I have an HP laptop with 7 on it and want to have 95 on it to so I can play some old games I have. Burnout Pro especially. I downloaded DOSBOX and can't get that to work. After searching Google for how to do multiple OS I think I would just Phuck up my computer if I did it myself. Is this something I can just have done by a computer shop? If I cant get DOSBOX to work I know trying to install multiple OS would kill me.

 

[Dukester]

Get vmware and you can run multiple os's at any given time...

 

[Dragit]

well you can format your hard drive to have multiple partitions... install a os on each one and use a boot loader to choose what partition to boot from.

Pretty simple. But as for runing multiple os's on the same partition or simultaneously... idk.

 

[TJBrown]

i run OSX 106.2, Windows 7 and Debian Linux all on the same Dell D630. Works like a champ. I use Chameleon for a boot loader.

 

[Kechup]

I put vista and xp on a laptop some years ago for a guy at work, I think it was vista causing the problems but it never worked right. BSOD as well as random lock ups, and if you ran a defrag on the drive with vista it would lock up. Then I wanted to make it work so I tried two HD with one OS on each drive and still random look ups, went from one lockup a day to once a week with separate HD but still not stable. That's my experience anyways.

 

[Dragit]

i run OSX 106.2, Windows 7 and Debian Linux all on the same Dell D630. Works like a champ. I use Chameleon for a boot loader.

All on one partition?? Or multiple partitions on the hard drive

 

[carnutbill67]

Is this something I can have "the geek squad" or somebody like that do for me? I would need someone show me how to use it to. Would I be better off to just buy another used cheap laptop with 95 on it and use that for the old games?

 

[SScott]

Have you tried running them in compatibility mode?

 

[TJBrown]

All on one partition?? Or multiple partitions on the hard drive

Multiple Partitions. I used Partition magic to resize the current NTFS partition and created two new ones. Windows 7 was the original os and added the OSX Journaled partition and then the linux partition. Well the 5 linux partitions.

 

[colormebad]

Why dont you just jerk your h/d out and install a spare one and install 95 on it...The get a ide or sata to usb adpt..Then you can boot from usb and have windows 95 anytime...

 

[SScott]

Keep in mind, 95 does not have support for most of the hardware today and not all drivers are compatible............ If it won't run using the above method ( # 8 ), i would install a virtual machine

 

[blackflag]

x2 for vmware. You can just install it under win7 and have as many guest operating systems as you like depending on HD size.


Multiple paritions using a bootloader is another option, but is a little more advanced to setup.

 

[carnutbill67]

Love all the advice. Don't understand a fucking word of it but appreciate it none the less.

 

[pmbmax]

Why dont you just jerk your h/d out and install a spare one and install 95 on it...The get a ide or sata to usb adpt..Then you can boot from usb and have windows 95 anytime...

the old dell i was trying to find parts for well i got another one for the same money . i do what you said becaus i have 2 hard drives now,,,,not as much junk

 

[OldAsDirt]

95 can't read FAT32 or NTFS file systems and newer operating systems aren't going to work very well with an older disk format. You'd be better off getting an old "clunker" to run the old games on - should be able to find something pretty cheap at a used computer store.

 

[55chevy383]

VMWare is bad ass, but not cheap.

 

[blackflag]

The VMWare server is still free isnt it??