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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Disks / File System / January 2004Booting windows from a floppy
am helpng a friend who has bought a new e-Machine, which is loaded with windows XP Home edition. He is still using a couple of programs which he has been running on Windows in dos. They are out-dated and there are no programs which will convert the files to an XP compatible program. Would like to install his old hard drive in the new machile as a slave and let him boot to the new or old harddrive as necessary. I created a boot disk, but when i type the "win" command at the dos prompt, I get a VFAT, device not found - system halted error. Need a work- around. Thanks In windows XP if you right-click on a EXE file you have a compatibity option which you can change to win98. I think the error your getting is because the old drive in the new computer is D: drive and the windows version on it is trying to run programs from C: drive with is WinXP-H Some motherboards BIOS have a setting to change the Hard-drive device list. Mine does i use XP-Pro and if i need to run 98 i restart my computer, goto BIOS, and change the Hard-drive device list to boot off my other dive (Primary Slave) first. > am helpng a friend who has bought a new e-Machine, which > is loaded with windows XP Home edition. He is still using [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > device not found - system halted error. Need a work- > around. Thanks |
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