Sorry, no experience with Linux.
NT can be a beast sometimes, but properly configured with compatible hardware and good drivers, I think it is a pretty solid, great OS. It is like anything else, when you get to know it, it isn't really all that bad.
Have you or anyone else tried Ghost software for full system backups? It is available at ghost.com. They were just bought out by Symantec. It supports fat, ntfs, and much more. When I have gotten my system the way I want it, configured and running well, I "ghost" it to a single image file and then burn a CD of that image file. If I ever need to restore from either a bad software crash that has damaged system files or from a bad hard drive, I just use the image file to recreate the disk or partition without using fdisk or format or anything. Upon recreating you can also resize the new partition. I do backup my data files separately to tape or removable jaz. Check it out, this is one great application! It has saved me many, many hours when having to reinstall OSes. It is very quick.
I will always ghost a partition before doing a major software install, it lets me "backup" to where I was before the install if necessary.
Sorry you are having so much trouble witn NT/95/98.
Good Luck
Dan
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