Gabriel Knight, Discworld, Pandora Directive/Killing Moon

...do not work in XP. They all install okay, but when I actually try to run them I get the Black Screen of Oblivion and can't get any further. I've tried the XP compatibility options. Don't work. Tried QFixApp. Doesn't work. Tried DOSBox - gives me an error message which stays up for approximately .0003 seconds before exiting the program. Any other options?

They do all work on my old Win95 computer, except for a slight problem in Gabriel Knight Sins of the Father (diskette version) where he will not pick up the phone at the beginning of day 5, effectively halting the game. If I can't get it to work in XP, I would appreciate someone telling me where I can get a saved game past the phone problem.

If anybody can help me, I'd be very very grateful.

How about a dual boot? win xp / win 9x.

I've been thinking about that, but I'm hesitant to do anything with the hard drive already in my laptop. I have another drive in a disk enclosure which connects with a USB port, but I'm not sure if partitioning it would work.

Why not?

I heard earlier versions of Windows might have trouble recognizing the USB because it's fairly new. Now I don't know much about the process, so I don't really know how much the USB would affect it. Should I just try it anyway?

Gabriel Knight I,II,III works fine with win XP.
I haven't played GB II but it can be run on xp

Hello to all:
My name is Inferno, and I have a small homepage in which I and a few of my friends have gotten a number of games to run on Windows XP with various amounts of tweaking. You can find it here:Inferno's Adventures http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/index.html
Gabriel Knight and Tex Murphy does work on XP but there are certain tweaks which must be performed first in order for that to happen.

Gabriel Knight I http://home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet2/XpSetupsF_J/GK1Setup.htm
Gabriel Knight II http://home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet2/XpSetupsF_J/GKII_Setup.htm
Tex Murphy:Pandora Directive
http://home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet4/XpSetupsP_T/Guest/pandorad.htm

Inferno

I'm having an odder issue...

I'm trying to play Gabriel Knight II again on a windows XP system, but I can't even install it. When I attempt to, the sierra install bits start up, but then seem to minimize. I can hear the chimes of the install program, but it's like it's stuck on my task bar and won't restore to visual.

Got any ideas?