On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 19:24 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Had a PII system at work that started to physically fry itself. > > Removed the hard disk and subsequently found it to be sound . > > In another up to date system I installed winXP and xandos ( will be > changing to mandrake when I get the boss to 'support' it by actually > coughing up some cash to help the effort here.) > > Physically installed the win98 hard drive as slave into this system > before installing linux. > > Lilo recognized win98 OK but when I try to boot into it - no noise at all. > > So I suspect that win98 doesn't understand the new motherboard - maybe. > > What I would like to do is to be able to boot win98 because of some > propriety software installed there. I am able to see the hard drive and > all the file system OK so no worries there at present. > > I do know that if I use a rescue disk that I will lose the capability of > running some of these programs. One thought is to copy the registry ( > when I can remember where it is ) - rescue the win98 installation and > then rewrite the registry with the saved one. I have been running linux > ( Mandrake10 Official at present ) for so long now that I have forgotten > most of this stuff. > > Anyone here been able to get something like this to work? > > And yes, if neseccary I am prepared to install Mandrake over xandros. > The folk at work like things straight forward and a basic installation > of Mandrake and KDE will get them using and eventually accepting linux. > > To recap, how can I boot win98 on hdb1 when win98 had been installed > from a previous hardware system without having to re-install win98?
A few months ago, I had a problem with my laptop CD drive. I borrowed an almost identical laptop from a friend, the only difference being the video card, put in it my hard drive and reinstalled XP and Mandrake 10. Then, I placed my hard drive back in my laptop, hoping that I didn't need to install every thing again. Well, Mandrake detected the hardware change and booted without problem. XP was simply unbootable, no matter what I tried.After fighting a few hours with it I decided to spend the 6+ hours reinstalling XP and its patches, MS Office and its patches, Autocad, and so on. I hope you better luck with W98. Adolfo
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