[cannie]

Hi jaclaz!

I had forgotten this possibility. I've modified all mentions to F12 to irecommend the previous BIOS modify procedure as an alternative in case that F12 does not work.

An excellent hint.

Thank you very much for your help, jaclaz!

[jaclaz]

cannie, on Dec 11 2009, 10:19 PM, said:

An excellent hint.

Thank you very much for your help, jaclaz!

You are welcome.

More than a hint, I have a certain experience in this kind of stuff, and I have actually (seriously) had people telling me they couldn't find the "Any" key.

http://www.tomwet.de...ges/AnyKey3.jpg

I try as much as I can to suggest "foolproof" approaches, BUT:

Douglas Adams said:

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

jaclaz

[dencorso]

jaclaz, on Dec 11 2009, 01:30 PM, said:

Hmm, on many motherboards you can press F12 till the end of time, but you WON'T be able to change boot order , and on some that have this feature the key is F11 and I am almost sure I had a laptop that used F2 :

For what it's worth, on the ASUS EeePC series, <Esc> gets you to the boot order menu and <F2> takes you to the full BIOS configuration menu, as in most ASUS boards. While <F2> is an easy guess, <Esc> is an unusual choice, not being an "F" key.

[cannie]

jaclaz, on Dec 12 2009, 12:28 AM, said:

More than a hint, I have a certain experience in this kind of stuff, and I have actually (seriously) had people telling me they couldn't find the "Any" key.

http://www.tomwet.de...ges/AnyKey3.jpg

LOL

I've read the first post again taking into consideration your hint and consequently improved the redaction of paragraphs C2 and H2. Those who are not able to find the "Any" key would no doubt copy the Recycler folder to the new unit and delete it afterwards from the old one.

HTH

[cannie]

The text has been revised to explain more clearly why is recommended moving the Windows 98 folders to the extended partition preserving the primary ones for XP and the boot files of both OS, using the terms "bootable partition" and "data partition" for an easier understanding.

HTH

This post has been edited by cannie: 09 January 2010 - 04:36 PM

[cannie]

Modified paragraph C1 to explain (in special for newbies) how to deal bigger than 32 GB FAT32 drives. This is needed in many cases due to the dimension of modern hard drives.

HTH

[cannie]

Modified paragraph C2 to improve the content of "Unmount.reg" by including the deletion of the boot device registry data, so that they become updated automatically at reboot.

HTH

This post has been edited by cannie: 29 July 2010 - 11:10 AM

[cannie]

Changed all internet direct links into red letter text lines for increased compatibility.

HTH

cannie

This post has been edited by cannie: 06 September 2010 - 05:09 AM

[MDGx]

I am of the opinion this thread (awesome guide, btw) should be "stickified".
So say we all...

What say you, dencorso?

[dencorso]

Agreed.

[cannie]

Latest improvements:

- All the tutorial's www links have been reviewed, updated and made active.

Happy Christmas to you all!

cannie

This post has been edited by cannie: 21 December 2010 - 07:02 AM

[cannie]

I'm afraid I forgot to say here that the wide experience obtained all along this thread was essential to build a similar tutorial for Windows 7.

But I've not forgotten the help I received then, and even a rather late I wish to thank dencorso, jaclaz, MDGx and all others for their help.


HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

This post has been edited by cannie: 05 February 2012 - 03:53 PM

[jaclaz]

cannie, on 05 December 2011 - 03:45 AM, said:

I'm afraid I forgot to say here that the wide experience obtained all along this thread was essential to build a similar tutorial for Windows 7.

But I've not forgotten the help I received then, and even a rather late I wish to thank dencorso, jaclaz, MDGx and all others for their help.


HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

Hmmm, either I am very late, or you are a bit early for Christmas.... .

Nice circular referrence you made




jaclaz

[cannie]

Hi jaclaz:

You are right: It's too late to thank you all (it's a long time since the Windows 7 tutorial was done) and too soon for Christmas (some two weeks before).
Well, maybe I've unconsciously tried to repair my fault now by doing just the opposite

Best wishes anyway.

cannie.

This post has been edited by cannie: 06 February 2012 - 02:59 AM

[emuxer]

I desperately need to do the first method by connecting my old Win98 HDD and using a floppy to boot it, I've managed to boot it but I always get to the GDI.EXE load failed screen, I don't want to reinstall either OS (Win98 and WinXP), can someone help me.

[cannie]

Latest changes:

- Some text improvements.

HTH

Cannie

This post has been edited by cannie: 22 March 2013 - 09:02 AM

[cannie]

Latest changes:

- Added paragraph K to include recent useful optimizing freeware after checking its compatibility with Windows 98/XP.

HTH

Cannie