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  • November 11, 2008 at 12:49 am #2163046

    Dual Boot Vista 64-bit and Windows 95

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    by ahiawa · about 15 years, 5 months ago

    Can I Dual Boot Vista 64-bit and Windows 95, is this possible?

    Catch, Vista 64-bit installed first and when I put the 95 CD in it says it doesn’t support 64-bit.

    Any known workarounds?

    Thanks.

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    • November 11, 2008 at 12:49 am #2965367

      Clarifications

      by ahiawa · about 15 years, 5 months ago

      In reply to Dual Boot Vista 64-bit and Windows 95

      Clarifications

    • November 11, 2008 at 1:15 am #2965364

      try

      by .martin. · about 15 years, 5 months ago

      In reply to Dual Boot Vista 64-bit and Windows 95

      installing windows 95 first

    • November 11, 2008 at 1:35 am #2965360

      With all this raw 64-bit power …

      by older mycroft · about 15 years, 5 months ago

      In reply to Dual Boot Vista 64-bit and Windows 95

      Why not run W95 virtually?

      It’ll FLY !! 😉

    • November 11, 2008 at 4:38 am #2965330

      Well firstly you can not install one version of Windows

      by oh smeg · about 15 years, 5 months ago

      In reply to Dual Boot Vista 64-bit and Windows 95

      Into another version of Windows. When you installed Vista ^$ you did this from DOS to begin with and you need to do the same thing again and install the second OS to a blank unused Partition as [b]You Can Not[/b] install different versions of Windows or even the same version of Windows to the same Partition as it will over write the existing files and stop the original System working.

      A much better idea is to run 95 Virtually in something like MS Virtual PC which can be downloaded from here but I’m not sure if this is supported by a 64 Bit System. You’ll have to read M$ Destructions on this

      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&DisplayLang=en

      Or you can use VM Ware to do the same thing but better. I do know that one of the VM Ware Offerings will work on a 64 Bit OS.

      http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/

      Col

      • November 11, 2008 at 6:06 am #2965311

        My alternative

        by jamesrl · about 15 years, 5 months ago

        In reply to Well firstly you can not install one version of Windows

        I found the instrctions on the net, sorry lost the link, but a good google will find them.

        Vista has the native ability to shirnk a partition. I took my Vista partition, shrank it enough for my needs (80 GB), created a new partition on the now unused area and installed XP on that partition (boot from the CD). I then got a dual boot utility from the web and voila.

        Really wasn’t that tough.

        James

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