If it says "FAT32", you are in luck! You can use a Windows95/98 (i.e. If it says "NTFS", the only way you can use a boot disk is with commercial (and expensive) 3rd party utilities. Look (in the right hand pane) for your hard drive. Under the "Storage" section LClick on the "disk management" section. To see how yours is formatted, start the "Computer management" administrative tool: If you upgraded yourself, what you have will depend on what options you chose when you installed. Almost all computers purchased with XP pre-installed come with a hard drive that uses the NTFS file system.
#BOCHS WINXP BOOT UP DISK WINDOWS#
Windows XP has a feature that can make a boot disk useless: the NTFS file system. Try setting up the game for no sound/music first to make sure that it works, and then play with the sound stuff. *You will have to check and make sure that the set blaster line is correct for your system and you may need to add your DOS emulation tsr/driver to the boot disk's autoexec.bat file to enable sound. Make sure that you check out the included readme!.txt file for setup instructions. It runs a lot of games without any changes.* It gives a good deal of conventional memory and starts up Expanded memory by default.
Then the second thing you need to do is get a large cup of coffee.
tool to tell a DOS game that in is running in Win98 probably won't do much good) also applies to old DOS games. Everything there (except the adjusting DirectX setting, -and using the app. The first thing you can do, is take a look at the Old Windows Games section of this guide. Or doing "unspeakable things" to Microsoft executives?
Thinking of throwing your computer away in disgust? So you have an old DOS game? And you have Windows XP? And it doesn't work? "Help! If I can't get this old DOS game to work in XP in the next 15 minutes I'll die!"
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