Re: Wing Commander IV install on WinXP?

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From: Karl Frank
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 17:37

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James Boswell wrote:

> booting from a dos bootdisk isn't an option (NTFS formatted harddisk)
> I'd like to avoid setting up Win98 on a spare disk (I have a 6GB disk
> sitting around) JUST so I can install WC4 and then copy the directory to the
> XP disk over the network (using another machine as a waypoint whilst I swap
> disks obviously.)
> Suggestions anyone?, is there a way to manually install WC4?

I am not sure about installing, but I'd guess that even a patched WC4 
won't work on NTFS.

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