There is very little reason to do this. I suggest getting a second hard drive so that once you've satisfied your curiosity, you wouldn't have to make any more big changes to your system. (If this is just about running Mortal Kombat II, then this will not really solve your problems and is likely to introduce new problems.)

With a second hard drive, you can install a boot manager on your first hard drive, but it might be easier just to toggle the boot order in your BIOS when you want to switch.

Jorpho wrote on 2020-04-26, 22:39:

but it might be easier just to toggle the boot order in your BIOS when you want to switch.

I agree 100% . Boot managers can be a pain to fix when things inevitably break . If you are only going to be switching occasionally, best to do it through BIOS .

I also concur about Mortal Kombat 2; Freedos or any other DOS will not help with that issue .

Alright, then, how do you close topics

Seeing that you can’t close topics, everybody, feel free to bump this if you had this question.

darry wrote on 2020-04-26, 23:05:

I also concur about Mortal Kombat 2; Freedos or any other DOS will not help with that issue .

No more than running Win98 command line only.

gdjacobs wrote on 2020-04-27, 03:22:

darry wrote on 2020-04-26, 23:05:

I also concur about Mortal Kombat 2; Freedos or any other DOS will not help with that issue .

No more than running Win98 command line only.

I am not sure I understand what you mean by that. The game runs fine under Windows 98 SE DOS pure DOS mode . It does not run properly in a Windows dos box (graphics corruption) . The issue experienced by the OP is that his sound hardware is not initialized properly under DOS ( CWCDOS.EXE does not detect his CS4280 sound chip) . Changing DOS versions won't fix that .

darry wrote on 2020-04-27, 03:30:

I am not sure I understand what you mean by that. The game runs fine under Windows 98 SE DOS pure DOS mode . It does not run properly in a Windows dos box (graphics corruption) . The issue experienced by the OP is that his sound hardware is not initialized properly under DOS ( CWCDOS.EXE does not detect his CS4280 sound chip) . Changing DOS versions won't fix that .

I don't disagree with you. To rephrase what I said, running FreeDOS will provide no more advantage than command line only Win98 (which is where he's at).

darry wrote on 2020-04-27, 03:30:

The issue experienced by the OP is that his sound hardware is not initialized properly under DOS ( CWCDOS.EXE does not detect his CS4280 sound chip) . Changing DOS versions won't fix that .

My guess on that front may be his PCI / ISA PNP / resource settings in bios, I've had similar issues with CMI based cards and others not being detected as being assinged "odd" resources by the bios or other devices using the needed resources.

Could try messing around in the bios settings, might get it to detect, other than that, maybe time to look out for a motherboard with an ISA slot and a nice ISA sound card, or find a Soundblaster Live! and try that for a PCI option.

synrgy87 wrote on 2020-04-27, 14:11:

darry wrote on 2020-04-27, 03:30:

The issue experienced by the OP is that his sound hardware is not initialized properly under DOS ( CWCDOS.EXE does not detect his CS4280 sound chip) . Changing DOS versions won't fix that .

My guess on that front may be his PCI / ISA PNP / resource settings in bios, I've had similar issues with CMI based cards and others not being detected as being assinged "odd" resources by the bios or other devices using the needed resources.

Could try messing around in the bios settings, might get it to detect, other than that, maybe time to look out for a motherboard with an ISA slot and a nice ISA sound card, or find a Soundblaster Live! and try that for a PCI option.

Thanks for the insight .
OP has an ES1370 available, so basically the same as an SB Live under DOS .