Installing Win95 on a WinXP system?

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In order to run my older programs, I am trying to install Win95 on my WinXP system. However, the Win95 install program is telling me that I can not install Win95 without first going into a FULL DOS environment, which my WinXP system by definition does not possess! How do I get around this to install Win95?
 
Its somewhat difficult because installing 95 will erase your XP bootsector, which is great if you want to boot into 95 all the time.. but not so great if you ever want to run XP again.

What you need:
-More than one partition. You can't install 95 on the same drive letter as XP, even if you install it to a different directory.

-Partitions (or drive letters) that Windows 95 can recognize. If you have the original 95, that means a C drive of 2 GB or less formatted as FAT16. If you have the later 95 (aka OSR2 or 95b), you can use fat32. NTFS, which you may have if you have XP, is a no go.

- A boot disk. Available at bootdisk.com, you need this to get your DOS environment.

- XP Mojo. As indicated above, 95 will erase your XP bootsector. You need to know how to fix it from Recovery Console (though a repair install will also work)

- Patience. As indicated below, without a format this will be messy. The recommend way to set up a dual boot (aka only way that isn't a pita) is to install 95 *before* XP

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Ingredients:
-1 Copy Partition Magic (better make it from, say, v5 onwards)
-1 Copy XOSL (free multiboot software; far more flexible than PM's "BootMagic")
-1 PC w/ enuff horsepower to run WinXP, as well as sufficient HDD space (and/or MULTIPLE HDD's)
-a few hrs of time
-Several servings of the aforementioned "patience"
-1 copy each of Win 9x and Win XP

Directions:
-Read up on sys requirements for each OS; make sure you got "enuff" to accomodate both
-Stay tuned here, as more instructions unfold in the coming days (I'm at work now and have to go, but I'll be back later, and/or others will fill in these blanks even before I return)
 
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