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To: LTBH who wrote (962)	6/1/1998 9:17:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Dual Boot what would allowing BIOS to actually change drive letters accomplish? One needs to know what the drive letter assignment will be. Changing drive letter assignments could cause havoc and render some applications useless. I do not want to change them. My point is they will change if one changes the boot sequence of hard disks. When you use either Partition Magic or NT dual boot, does this require reading from the "tradional" C Drive first? Don't know for sure but where else would it read from? If it does indeed read from the "traditional C" drive then this type of dual boot would require the C drive to be the C drive. Is this what you are trying to avoid? Aren't Win and NT file schemes different enough already? I have only started to contemplate the possibilities. If I have a traditional dual boot setup Win95/NT and there is a hard disk crash or the boot is somehow corrupted neither OS will work. If I have a BIOS dual boot setup and one hard disk crashes or the OS somehow gets corrupted I still have a working system on the other hard disk. NT and Win95 extend different options. In many cases I have no choice but to use both operating systems. I need to be able to experiment with new configurations and new operating systems without risking a current configuration. NT and Win95 disk formats are only different if one makes it so. If both reside on one disk and share space it must be FAT 16. I do not like the limitations of FAT 16 ( 2 GB max partitions). I quickly run out of drive letters when I have to divide up a couple of 9 GB drives. If the OSs are on separate discs one could have FAT32 and its benefits on the Win95 disc and NTFS and its benefits on the NT disc. I see fewer compromises with the dual boot from bios option. Also more backup opportunities. Zeuspaul

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