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| | | We recently purchased I-DEAS CAD software which requires WinNT to run. Being CAD operator, I'm the one who should change his OS. I'm get used to Win98 and don't want to migrate fully to NT. So, is it possible to run both Win98 and WinNT on the same (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | (...) boot (...) Yes it is possible to run both OSses on one machine. First create a partition for Win98 (FAT16) and install Win98. After that run WinNT setup, the setup allows you to configure the other partitions and installs a bootselector. I (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) What is it about 98 that you like that NT doesn't give you? NT 4 and 98 are quite similar in look and feel, and I'd argue that NT is a bit better in system control. Frank gave a correct answer, it IS possible. I'm just asking why do it? Unless (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | (...) and (...) I don't think so (note, it's an opinion). Look and feel is the same, but if you are a little bit more than a common MS Office user who frequently utilizing very non standard software/hardware combinations it is somewhat different. My (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Steven Vore
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| | | | | | | | | "Selçuk <teyyareci>" <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote (...) see (...) works there's a comparable item in Windows 2000, which also "does" PnP. not that Win2K's the answer to the rest of the world's software, unfortionately, which is why (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Steve Hodge
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'll give you two things: ICS (Internet connection sharing) which is only relevant if you have a network at home, and DirectX7 which is only relevant if you are into 3D games. If either one is relevant it can be pretty compelling. (...) you (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) One thing NT gives me, that 98 doesn't, is a cute little error message indicating that one of my devices isn't responding. No mention of which device, or where to find out. And everything seems to be working, so no obvious clues. Oh yeah. On (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) You mean you don't get more data than you know what to do with when you go to Administrative Tools and run Event Viewer? I usually get enough data to figure out what's going on at least. Fixing it may be another problem. (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Yes and no. I get plenty of data, not much of it useful. Anyway, that's a machine of the past. Reformatting resolves many problems (and causes many others). Steve (24 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote in article <Fow1u0.KIs@lugnet.com>... (...) Being (...) and (...) and (...) Does (...) sharware/freeware boot (...) Hello Selçuk, I personally only have experience installing NT on machines (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Yep, doing it right now on 3 different machines. One machine, in fact, has Windows Millenium, WinNT 4 (workstation), WinNT 4 (server), and Windows 2000 (advanced server) on it... There are some partitioning issues you'll be faced with, and you (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | Thank you very much guys,..:-) Tried several things, and find that the most appropriate one is a small freeware named "Ranish Partiton Manager" (exist at winfiles.com) which is a very small (only about 100K with documentation) but effective program (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) (URL) $39, but that's not a bad price. Course, you could go the other route and get their new NTFS for 95/98: (URL) stuff rocks. Especially their NT tools. (24 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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