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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5856)	2/4/1999 2:20:00 PM
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>>why not have w98 and the backup NT in two separate partitions No reason; that's a perfectly possible alternative. The only requirement would be that the 98 partition is readable by NT. The partition with 98 on it will be the active partition; the NT partition can be a primary partition or a logical drive in an extended partition. This may sound like it contradicts my earlier comment about having to boot from a primary partition, but it doesn't. The NT OS can reside in any partition, but the NT boot partition must be the active primary. The active primary is where our little friends boot.ini, ntdetect, and ntldr reside. Also bootsect.dos for dual booting. Done this way you would not have to back up the partition with NT on it. You would back up the nt boot stuff in the other partition, but first that's small and second you need it to boot Win98 anyhow once NT is installed. That's because when dual booting you get a little way into the NT boot before getting a chance to specify it's Win98 you really want to boot. HOWEVER, that will work even if NT itself (in the other partition) has been blown away.

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