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| 504892 | 2006-12-07 13:03:00 | Ok guy’s and gal’s, curly question time . :D A mate owns two computers, one is an old Win 98, now deceased (leaky MB capacitors) and the other a shiny new XP machine . Now the old one contained a lot of important, business related files, created by one of those early, probably DOS based, accounting programmes . In an endeavour to help I removed the HDD from the old machine and slaved it in the new machine . Word, XL and picture files all work fine, but the all important accounting programme doesn’t . Naturally, he can’t remember where the disks are for the accounting programme but I don’t think it matters too much as I doubt they would load on the new XP machine anyway . Question is, what is the accepted practise in a situation like this? The slaved HDD still has the Win98 OS on it, so is there some way to boot from here when he needs to access this accountancy programme . He retires after Christmas so doesn’t want to go to a lot of trouble and expense with new accounting programmes and transferring all the data, assuming that is possible . Any suggestions would be appreciated . :thumbs: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 504893 | 2006-12-07 13:37:00 | Can you clarify the exact question? For me, usually any query that involves three reads to try and understand goes into file 13. | Greg (193) | ||
| 504894 | 2006-12-07 17:22:00 | One approach would be to put the HDD in another W98 box They are about for next to nothing. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 504895 | 2006-12-07 17:51:00 | Can you clarify the exact question? For me, usually any query that involves three reads to try and understand goes into file 13. “A” pass in "NCEA" comprehension was it Greg? :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 504896 | 2006-12-07 17:52:00 | One approach would be to put the HDD in another W98 box They are about for next to nothing. Yep, got that down as a last resort. :thumbs: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 504897 | 2006-12-07 19:17:00 | Another idea might be a new partition with W98 on it | kjaada (253) | ||
| 504898 | 2006-12-07 19:28:00 | I guess technically by having a seperate HDD with Win98 on it we have virtually the same thing? Maybe I'm looking at dual booting? :cool: I'm "Googleing" at the moment to see what dual booting is all about . :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 504899 | 2006-12-07 19:40:00 | What happens when he tries to run the accounting program? Have you tried running it in compatibility mode? Is it a Win9.x program or a DOS program? If DOS, then you could use DOSBox to run it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 504900 | 2006-12-07 19:52:00 | There is a dos command (something like) DIR C/: ,where C is the disk that you are searching and you can see everything on the disk.Also a fair few accounting systems were still on Lotus 123 back then. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 504901 | 2006-12-07 20:01:00 | What happens when he tries to run the accounting program? Have you tried running it in compatibility mode? Is it a Win9 . x program or a DOS program? If DOS, then you could use DOSBox to run it . Trying to run the programme produces "Can't find Data files" or similar . As for it being Win9 . x or DOS I don't know, nor do I know how to tell . :blush: "Googling" leaves me thinking a Boot Manager is what is required? That way he could boot to XP by default or boot to Win98 if he wanted to use the accounting programme . Anyone any thoughts or recommendations on this possibility? |
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