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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (4263)	12/15/1998 8:10:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) of 14778

My understanding is NT is already installed or in the process of being installed. The PQ installation of their boot manager after NT is installed involves resizing, creating, activating and deactivating partitions. This seems a bit risky if you are operating on the only working OS and you are unfamiliar with the procedures. Isn't that what the KOT drive is for. When is he going to learn how to use it??? After he has a disaster. A blank machine sounds like the perfect opportunity to do. You guys have Jon swapping cables and installing software. Might as well go all the way :) *If the intent of the second drive/OS is to work in the event of a first drive failure be it software or hardware how does a boot manager help? Wouldn't the boot manager fail along with the drive?* Don't knock it till you try, I think you tune will change once you do There will be mainy failures where the first physical disk won't fail that BM's come in handy. Prior to PM4 you had to boot dos use Drive Image or PM on NTFS. BM is perfect for that. So your telling me that the only time you go in the BIOS and switch to boot your KOT drive is AFTER the first disk fails??? Are we being honest here? Can the PQ DOS be beefed up by adding the missing files? I can email files but can not email a DOS boot disc. If Clarence had a DOS system floppy created by Partition Magic in the installation process would he be able to add the required files and would the PQ supplied command interpreter be compatible with non PQ commands? A. its illegal B. It won't work. Remember dos programs check the stupid version ID string. Do you prefer Win95 to Win98 for DOS? Win98 seems to have better hardware support..it has CDROM drivers included on the installation disk. 95 for a KOT I may use 98 for reasons mentioned but otherwise I avoid 98. I overwrote my primary install when setting up this machine. I do not remember the details but Win 98 installed itself over the Win95 C drive installation. I told Win98 to install to E:\ as it was my third drive ( my memory might be?) but it ignored me and went right to the C drive. It puts me in the not knowing what I am doing category so in my case if I had only one working OS I would unplug the drive. Cause 95/98 really can only be installed on the first primary partition. You can tell it E but some stuff still goes on C. Just like all other MS Crap. Dos and 3.1 are the same deal. You have BM for day to day application and can use the BIOS in case the main Physical Disk fails if you have 2 drives. Does the boot manager leave the bootable partitions active? The bios boot selection will only work with active partitions. BM doesn't change them but if the BIOS requires Active bit to be set for the first HD. Then you will have to change it using FDISK or some other utility as you do today if you are booting another parition of 1st physical disk. THE BM parition is the marked Active. Remeber only 1 primary parition per physical disk can be marked active anyway. Booting of the 2nd disk won't require mods to boot from BIOS. Sean

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