dual booting, is it the right choice?
I am trying to determine if dual booting my system is the right choice for my situation. I hope maybe someone here can give me some pointers.
My computer at work was damaged in a flood a year ago and had to be replaced. I bought a new hp pavilion 7936 with Windows XP. Everything rocked along just fine for 30 days when the word processor program just decided it didn't want to run anymore. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it about 10 different times.
I am not a novice when it comes to computers, but I was stumped. I just couldn't figure out why word perfect quit working. I wound up calling Corel, (or whoever it happens to be now days) and I was told that Word Perfect 8 will not run on XP, no ifs, ands, or buts. So, I formatted the hard drive, installed Windows 98 and Word Perfect works just fine, but by doing so, I have lost all the xp drivers, like sound, video, the cd burning software, etc. Right now, I have 16 whole colors I can view, wow....this is really driving me nuts.
The easy solution is to restore my system with the factory restore disks, upgrade word perfect and everything would be fine. This is not possible.
I work for a law firm and when we purchased WP8, we bought the "legal edition" containing some time saving legal tools we need for our pleadings that I cannot find elsewhere. WP8 was the final edition containing the legal plug-ins, so upgrading WP is out of the question.
That brings me back to the original question. If I were to restore my system to the factory settings, then installed Windows 98, would that kill 2 birds with 1 stone, so to speak....would I still have the xp drivers but be able to run win98 programs that would not otherwise run on xp?
Here's another stumper.....if WP8 will not run on XP, why then am I not having a bit of trouble running it on my XP laptop at home?
I would really appreciate any advice anyone can give me. Thank you
Shelly