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Rayvin

Having read (practically) all the 'how to' topics on disc
partitioning I am now more confused than when I started.
Simple question really. I am currently using my laptop
running XP, while my faithful old Windows 95 PC lies idle.
However, the old machine has lots of files and information
that I don't want to lose. I have considered creating a
partition on my laptop hard disc and installing my Windows
95 files on it.
I need to know:
can I simply create a partition and install my Windows 95
in the new drive - remember I would still have XP already
installed on Drive C.
Or do I have to, as several other topics suggest, reformat
the complete hard disc in order to install the Windows 95
system before I re-install my XP system as seems to be
generally recommended.
Looking forward to a one page solution
Ray
 
Later suggestion is more likely what you could do. It's possibly to have
win95 and winxp on same disk on different partitions. I have done that with
win98 and win2k. It required lot of work and commercial utility Partition
Magic.

There are also special commercial software which allows you to run several
operating systems on same pc simultaneously. See http://www.vm-ware.com/.
 
The easiest method would be to slave the drive, however, this being a
laptop, you could consider an external USB drive. Once connected, your
Win95 files would be listed and obtainable via Windows Explorer.

Another option to try as I don't know if it applies to Win95:

How to Install Windows 98 after Installing Windows XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm
 
The solution provided allows for use of Win95 but does
not answer how to partition the hard disc.
I have a 60 GB hard disc which has a primary basic
partition of 31 MB FAT configuration and a (C:)volume of
55.84 GB NTFS system (48.45 free).
The information on partitioning says that the Disk
management utility will indicate free space and clicking
on this area will activate the Wizard. I presume C: has
been allocated all the space and I cannot get the Wizard
activated or am reading the instructions wrong..
How do i partition the hard rive to get another logical
drive. I need this to run a programme that requires two
partitions.
If possible please help..

Thanks
 
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