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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4639)	1/3/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

All i've done so far is get some trackball sw working and install Aopens Hardware Monitor on the w98 drive since its setup would not open in NT. It sounds like you have also been able to boot to the two OSs with the bios. Hardware Monitor reads one of the case fans (not sure which one) without problem but not the cpu fan. My GUESS is it has to do with where the fan gets it power. Probably not all sources are monitored. The DI manual indicates an installation to WinNT must be in a FAT partition. My primary master drive with NT is now one big 6.4 g NTFS partition (if no partitions= 1 partition). Now? did you change it? I recall your intent was two NTFS partitions on the first drive. No partitions is no divisions. ie you see the entire drive as one drive with one drive letter. Does this qualify as reason enough to create a second partition formatted FAT 32? Good question. FAT32? on which drive? If you leave it as it is you have two options to access the PowerQuest utilities. You can boot to the KOT drive and execute from there and you can execute the PowerQuest programs from floppies. NT users have been executing exclusively from floppies until the latest release. Neither of the above seems like an optimum solution to me. The boot to Win98 is ok but it is the KOT/utility drive and should be used as an alternative when the primary OS needs help..which seems to happen from time to time<g>. Perhaps the best solution is to put NT in a 1 or 2 GB FAT16 partition at the beginning of the Quantum harddrive. Then you can (unless there is more fine print) install the PowerQuest products in NT, your primary operating system. You would maintain two methodologies to boot the PQ products (not counting the last..last..last..resort floppy option<g>) Zeuspaul

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