[Ham-Computers] Flash drives, DOS, etc

[Dan Violette]

KD4D did a great job of researching and documenting ways to use older programs on XP.  Add a dual-boot after Windows XP already on PC (I did this one and boot to Win 98 when needed):

http://www.trlog.com/DOS_dual_boot_20041207.pdf

Article starts page 8 in the following on making a bootable USB Thumb Drive:

http://pvrc.org/Newsletters/feb05.pdf

I wanted to get a cheap USB stick and make it a carry wherever bootable, but never did that.

Dan KI6X

-----Original Message-----
>From: Philip <Beaconeer at SBCGlobal.net>
>Sent: Oct 19, 2006 3:50 PM
>To: Computers Ham <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [Ham-Computers] Flash drives, DOS, etc
>
>Hi All,
>
>I've been reading the various posts about booting with Virtual machines, 
>flash drives etc. with some interest.
>
>I have one old radio program (Radio-Raft) which is a multi-mode decoder 
>program that I would like to use.  It's a very good multi-mode program that 
>runs under DOS or the earlier versions of windows-95, etc.  No matter how 
>you tweak it, it WILL NOT run under Win-XP (even the author of the program 
>admits this).  People have tried, but it just won't work.  The only other 
>programs on the market that does all this one will AND run under WinXP are 
>in the multi-hundred dollar category (Skysweeper etc.), out of my reach.
>
>I have an old NEC laptop Pentium here running Win95 that I was going to put 
>the program on.  The machine runs well, has a decent hard-drive for it's age 
>and the required serial port to run it, but it's early color display is 
>rather dim and is hard on my eyes during extended use.  I got it to enable 
>use of my logging programs etc. in "portable" use and for that it's fine.
>
>I DO still have my old DOS 6 disk set.  I wonder if it's possible to use a 
>flash drive as a virtual machine UNDER Win-XP and set it up with DOS 6, 
>while still running other apps in WinXP. To be honest, this doesn't sound 
>do-able to me as it seems like you'd be running two OS's at the same time, 
>but then I'm no expert either.  If not then I'll just set the program up on 
>the Win95 machine and forget it (though it'd mean running two computers 
>simultaneously on an already cluttered listening bench).
>
>73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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>
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