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[stinkywizzleteats]

I have WIN XP sp2 operating system.

I desire Win 98 os in Virtual PC environment.

I have a legit Win 98 cd in the drive. I follow all steps on installing virtual pc and setting up the ram and memory space for a windows 98 virtual os. I get to the step where you click the "START" button to go install windows 98 cd and the computer dies and goes to blue screen and restarts. Any ideas? I have looked at half a dozen walkthroughs including abandonia's and not having any luck.

[Eagle of Fire]

I do not have the expertise with Virtual PCs to be able to be of help for your particular problem... However, could I ask you why exactly you wish to have a virtual drive with Win98 when you are using Windows XP?

Windows XP is great to emulate Windows 98 and have good compatibility with that system. Usually one only need to go in the compatibility tab for the desired program and switch compatibility with Windows 98 to run said program.

[Japo]

What "start" button? Which computer crashes, the host (real) or guest (virtual)? Which tutorial are you following (link), and at what point did you have problems?

[stinkywizzleteats]

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

I do not have the expertise with Virtual PCs to be able to be of help for your particular problem... However, could I ask you why exactly you wish to have a virtual drive with Win98 when you are using Windows XP?

Windows XP is great to emulate Windows 98 and have good compatibility with that system. Usually one only need to go in the compatibility tab for the desired program and switch compatibility with Windows 98 to run said program.

To put it in short I'm sick and tired of making concessions because I'm trying to stick the square peg in the round hole. I'm sick of games that don't have music or glitch because they were never meant to be run in this OS. You're right a lot of games will run well in XP. Many will run almost OK and I'm tired of it.

The two specifically I'm into right now are Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries and Mechwarrior 3. With tweaking and a couple hours sunk into combing the net for troubleshoots and patches I was able to get both to install and run, only to have later missions in the game become unbeatable due to crashes. I'm sick of it.

WinXP does great with some games.

I have Magic The Gathering Shandalar running like a top on it. Diablo II is running like a top on it dunno if it was originally an XP release or what. Then you have a lot of no-music games. I believe Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat was one. Dungeons and Dragons Ravenloft Strahd's Possession was one. Dark Sun Shattered Lands was one also I believe. I find this unacceptable as the music often makes a game what it is. What would Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden or Final Fantasy have been without gaming music?

People try to band aid situations with Dosbox. Dosbox is a wonderful program. Its useability varies wildly. Some games its best to have a top of the line computer to bring the game up to normal speed. Some games music does not play. Lets be honest MS Dos was a B to play games in anyway with memory and other crashes the norm so I don't hate on DosBox but I want the real Operating Systems.

I am doing research on Dual Boot. I would be open to whatever gets me multiple operating systems.

I have WIN XP.

I want Win 98

Then I will look to trying to get MS Dos although I have some confusion as to if its bundled into Win 98.

Tired of dumping hours and hours into making these games work on operating systems they were never meant to run on. For every eureka game where everything works perfect there are 3 games that have no music, crash later in the game, don't have the video cut scenes, etc. Sorry to vent but I need to vent lol.

[stinkywizzleteats]

Originally Posted by Japo

What "start" button? Which computer crashes, the host (real) or guest (virtual)? Which tutorial are you following (link), and at what point did you have problems?

The real host computer crashes on Step 10 when I click "START" button
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Microsoft-Virtual-PC

I have also tried to follow the abandonia instructions with same result.

I am open to setting up a dual boot for this computer. This hard drive has 1.5 tera and I have a backup drive I can copy from if it becomes unuseable for some reason.

[Smiling Spectre]

Can you say what message you got on blue screen? It's almost surely something with drivers, but always good to be sure...

[stinkywizzleteats]

Originally Posted by Smiling Spectre

Can you say what message you got on blue screen? It's almost surely something with drivers, but always good to be sure...

No message PC just dies. I guess technically thats not blue screen although my flatscreen tv I have hooked up to the computer does go blue but thats the tv.

I am looking into Dual boot.

[stinkywizzleteats]

I am using a tutorial on this site
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...dows-7-xp.html

I am confused about drivers specifically.

If I boot from win 98 cd and tell it install on the new partition which is on the same hard drive as my original C: drive, how will I get drivers onto the Z: drive the new one that I'm sticking win 98 on?

[stinkywizzleteats]

Ok I have tried for a couple hours now to get this thing to boot off of CD. I can't figure out whats wrong. The best I could get it to do was act like it was going to do something then spit out a long string of numbers in the black screen and something about IDE and Intel.

I noticed in my BIOS I can move my USB drives up to boot off them.

My question is, what would I stick on this USB drive to where the computer is going to be able to detect it on startup if I do make the USB drive my first go to for startup?

Would it be Windows98 in .iso format?

[Eagle of Fire]

To put it in short I'm sick and tired of making concessions because I'm trying to stick the square peg in the round hole. I'm sick of games that don't have music or glitch because they were never meant to be run in this OS. You're right a lot of games will run well in XP. Many will run almost OK and I'm tired of it.

The two specifically I'm into right now are Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries and Mechwarrior 3. With tweaking and a couple hours sunk into combing the net for troubleshoots and patches I was able to get both to install and run, only to have later missions in the game become unbeatable due to crashes. I'm sick of it.

Well, that's a great answer and a great reason to dive into that.

Once you manage to get WinXP running I strongly recommend that you visit and follow this guide ( How To Configure Dos For Gaming, which you can find in our tutorial subforum in our Troubleshooting forum in case the link don't work) so you can set up your autoexec.bat and config.sys files so they work in DOS. You can also use Win98 DOS mode which is not really DOS but an extended version of it made specially for Win98. If you configure those aforementioned config files you will be able to play DOS games normally. If you don't you'll be likely to face the exact same problems you mentioned before.

WinXP does great with some games.

I have Magic The Gathering Shandalar running like a top on it. Diablo II is running like a top on it dunno if it was originally an XP release or what.

Yes, Disblo II is not that old and was released for Windows XP. Magic Shandalar was released for MS-DOS though.

Then you have a lot of no-music games. I believe Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat was one. Dungeons and Dragons Ravenloft Strahd's Possession was one. Dark Sun Shattered Lands was one also I believe. I find this unacceptable as the music often makes a game what it is. What would Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden or Final Fantasy have been without gaming music?

In Windows XP most of the time I simply use VDMSound and it work just as well.

Info available on our site About VDMSound AFAIK.

People try to band aid situations with Dosbox. Dosbox is a wonderful program. Its useability varies wildly. Some games its best to have a top of the line computer to bring the game up to normal speed. Some games music does not play. Lets be honest MS Dos was a B to play games in anyway with memory and other crashes the norm so I don't hate on DosBox but I want the real Operating Systems.

DOSBox pretty much simply emulate DOS. I've never had problems with it but I know there is some games which won't work in DOSBox.

However, if you think that playing with DOS is going to be that much easier to run DOS games... You obviously never played games in DOS back in the days. I did. I often spent almost as much time making games run than I did playing them. Prepare yourself for a steep learning curve...

I am doing research on Dual Boot. I would be open to whatever gets me multiple operating systems.

Sorry, can't help you with that. But I know it can be done.