How to install Windows 95, 98 & ME on one machine?
Hello everyone:
I need all three versions of OS -- Windows 95, 98, ME to test our product --
is it possible to install all three on one computer, provided I have three
HDDs or 3 separate partitions?
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dc_2000] at [2007-11-19 20:56:53]
# 1 Re: How to install Windows 95, 98 & ME on one machine?
You should think about using a virtual machine, both Microsoft (virtual pc) and vmware have virtual pc products, I personally use vmware for testing different operating systems on the same pc.
Darka at 2007-11-10 3:40:11 >
# 2 Re: How to install Windows 95, 98 & ME on one machine?
There are several way to achieve that. Normally, to ensure that the OS is clean and not affected by other OSes, an OS is installed first and then a disk image is created by commerical programs like Norton Ghost. This is repeated for each OS until you have images for all OS. In this way, you can just recover your hard disk from the disk image when required.
Another way, is to use the free VMPlayer. It allows you to run other OSes on an existing OS. However, in terms of performance, it may be slower. In addition, if I am not wrong, it only installs generic driver for any hardware. You can easily use google search to find out on how to create an image for VMPlayer.
Kheun at 2007-11-10 3:41:11 >
# 3 Re: How to install Windows 95, 98 & ME on one machine?
...or 3 separate partitions?
Because of them all be DOS based, 3 partitions is the best way to go about it. This will allow them to run without conflicting amongst eachother.
# 4 Re: How to install Windows 95, 98 & ME on one machine?
Guys, you need to guide me through this. Here's what I did. I installed Windows 95 first on C:, which is FAT partition. Then I formatted D: as FAT as well and started installing Windows 98, but it did not ask me where to install it and simply updated existing 95 into Windows 98.
I also found this util "BootMagic" but how can I add a new OS through it?
# 5 Re: How to install Windows 95, 98 & ME on one machine?
You need to create and format 3 partitions right off the start. All should be FAT, FAT16, or preferably FAT32.
Now, when you install each one, it should ask for a destination somewhere in the installation.
# 6 Re: How to install Windows 95, 98 & ME on one machine?
You may have to have only one visible partition at any given time, though I'm not certain with the OSs in question. I think a boot manager would be the way to accomplish this. It writes to the boot sector of the drive upon bootup, so the system doesn't see the other partitions. Then each system thinks it's on C, and in some ways they sorta really are.
Google boot manager. There are a number of products which come to mind, like Boot-US, Ranish, LILO, etc. I seem to recall some of those have instructions on how to do what you want as well.
