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Users cling to old Microsoft operating systems (thanks Mike Martinez) is one of those weird coincidence articles, as it comes on the day I am finally going to bite the bullet and install WinXP on my gaming system, which has been steadfastly running Win98 since, well, 1998. I've always been happy with '98 as my gaming OS, and appreciate its lower overhead and continued ability to boot into DOS mode, but it's come to a point where that system needs an OS reinstall, and it just doesn't seem to make sense to do another '98 reinstall, especially with hardware and software support dwindling further every day.

Play Time:	Trash those meeting notes. Thanks Sharon.
Links of the Day:	Pentrix. Froogle. Thanks Enahs.
Stories of the Day:	James Brown appointed to funk up US Government. Microsoft to cut swastikas from software. OPEC wants aid if world shifts to renewable energies.
Science!:	Report: Earth's magnetic field fading. Fossil bridges gap in mammal evolution. Comparing Genomes Shows Split Between Chimps and People (registration required).
Images of the Day:	Badger/Mushroom. Thanks Ant.
Auction of the Day:	Wesley Crusher Action Figure, Autographed. Thanks Cyther.
	Thanks Mike Martinez.

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Re: WinXP
Dec 13, 2003, 15:55

WarPig

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Re: WinXP Dec 13, 2003, 15:55

Dec 13, 2003, 15:55

WarPig

So you have XP on one drive, and 98 on the other? How do you have the XP drive formatted, is it FAT32 or NTFS? How does that work, since 98 can't access NTFS drives?

Yeah, I formatted the XP drive FAT32. Now I can't even remember why NTFS is better but it all works.

You mean people actually try to get support from Microsoft at all?

I actually needed it - not that they would have helped. Up until SP1 came out I had about a 50/50 chance of booting up every day. When it didn't I had a batch file that would copy a backed up copy of the system file back onto the XP drive. I finally learned to do this after reformatting and reinstalling XP at least a dozen times. At that point the Win98 access to the XP drive was crucial. This was a problem that a lot of people had but Microsoft never acknowledged (yet still fixed with SP1, imagine that).

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