Hi Ron,

You cannot run the Win98 files or games off the external drive,(unless this drive is 
bootable and setup for dual booting) but there are other options:

Use Compatibility Mode
Run Older Programs on Windows XP  (Microsoft)
http://tinyurl.com/2857h
(Run the installer under Compatibility Mode and afterwards you may have to run the 
program's exe also in that mode)

Getting native Windows 95/98 games to run in Win XP
http://tinyurl.com/5m5jn3

You will have more luck if your drive is formatted with FAT32 rather than NTFS.

Use a virtual PC like Microsoft's VPC   http://tinyurl.com/2jzn55
or VMWare   http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Dual boot Win98 and WinXP    http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/dualboot.htm
There are many more articles about dual booting 98 and XP -the above is just one of them.

Hope this helps.
Peter E.


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:31 PM
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Subject: [PCSOFT] using an external HD with WIN98 on an XP desktop


I have an external enclosure mounted HD which has WIN98 installed on it, and
can connect it to my desktop with WIN XP installed via a USB cable. It
appears as drive F.

Is it possible to use this arrangement to play a game which will operate on
WIN 98 but not on a more advanced OS?

  Ron

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