I just purchased a new pc (with Windows XP). In order to more easily transfer the files from my old pc, I installed the old (SCSI) hard-drive and controller card.
File transfer went ok and leaving the 2nd hard-drive in the new machine hasn’t created any problems so far.
But, when I installed my old MiroVideo DC30 capture card in the new machine, it wouldn’t work. Apparently XP doesnt support the DC30 and Pinnacle(manufacturer) isnt planning to create new drivers.
Can I reinstall Windows 95 on the old hard drive(to use the DC30) and have it coexist with WinXP on the new hard drive? How do I choose which OS the pc boots with?
Did you already uninstall Win95 from the other drive?
You can set up the controls so that you start from a particular disk each time, or you can set it up so that it gives you the option everytime you start up
These days motherboard bioses give you a wide range of things to choose to boot from (hd1 hd2 hd3, cd, floppy, network, zip …)
You could set first boot device as floppy, second as hard disk 1, third as hard disk 2. I am not sure if when you turn the computer on it would say something along the lines of “boot from hard disk 1?” and give you the choice of booting from that, or waiting until the last boot device.
There seems to be no standard - If there’s a bootable floppy in it will boot from that without asking, if there is a cd it will ask, if there are two hard disks I don’t know what it will do. Anyone else?
The easiest way may be to get a swap tray for the hard drives. That way if you want to use 95 you install that drive and then take it out for the other drive that has XP installed. Each drive has its own settings and mine works real well. They are not expensive either. It looks like this
If you want to dual boot 95 and XP without having to buy new hardware or swap drives, it can be done. The easiest way is to install 95 first, then XP. XP will automatically detect that 95 is present and will give you a chance to upgrade or do a seperate clean install. You want the latter. XP will then give you a menu when it boots of which OS you want to run.
If you try to do it the other way around (XP first) then 95 overwrites the boot sector, which makes it impossible to boot XP without repairing it, and also 95 isn’t smart enough to recognize XP, nor is it smart enough to install a boot loader.
Probably best to follow the previous advice, but I have done an install of 95 over 2000, which should be pretty much the same, and it worked like this…You can install 95 and then you do a repair with the 2000 CD and tell it to fix the boot sector only. It’ll give you a boot menu. You then fix the boot menu by editing c:\boot.ini and adding a line "C:=“Windows 95"” under the [operating systems] bit (you’ll need to turn off read only attribute on the file). It should then just work. NB: The partition will need to be FAT16. It’s probably better to try and get a copy of Win98 SE if you can.
