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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5925)	2/5/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) of 14778

Your are almost in the cat's seat IDE1 is set up and running, you know how to use Drive Image and Partition Magic. You can restore NT from the KOT. One more step and you have a bullet proof (well ok, resistant) system. If you backup the KOT you will be in a position to play ie experiment with different options. Here is what I would do. It should not affect your existing system and can be altered or deleted with out much trouble. 1) Install Partition Magic on IDE1..NT 2) Use the copy Partition function to copy Win98 to the tail end of IDE1. Then Hide it. (size it smaller if you want..or wait to size it smaller until the other operations prove successful) You can always unhide it later. 3) Now you are in a position to play..you can restore either system from the other. 4) Clone IDE1 NT to the KOT using PM. You will need room..an equal amount of space....so you will have to resize the extended partition combo. That thing may be headed for the hills anyhow. You may want to move the extended to the end of the drive and put NT right after Win98. 5) Resize the NT clone (smaller) 6)Keep Win98 active and NT not. PM will only let you set one partition active.(caveat..I believe PM presents different options if you execute from NT..it may assume you are always working in NT and present NT friendly options) You may want to hide IDE2 NT for the first boot just to prove everything is still the same. Too many changes in one boot makes it harder to trouble shoot. You should then be able to play the switch game. There should be four combinations and my bet is they will all work, Win98 active and NT hidden. NT active and win98 hidden. Win98 active and NT not hidden and not active. NT active and Win98 not active and not hidden. I think Spots' comment about a dual boot NT/Win98 KOT as inevitable relates to an NT install. A clone (my best guess) will be different. Spots is busy right now so we should be able to figure it out on our own...the power of a dual drive system<g> If anything goes wrong you can boot to IDE1 NT and clone back the hidden partition at the end of the KOT. As a backup to the backup which I know is not a popular idea you could have a Drive Image of the KOT in the extended partition. You probably should have one anyhow for removal from the system..you are right , we should talk about the removable component. If the KOT setup proves unsatisfactory or other delete the NT partition and install NT with Win98. Better hurry up and get a CDR or a removable harddrive..or..<g> Zeuspaul BTW, the above is not a recommendation..it is a proposed methodology to implement what I understand to be your current intentions. You are ahead of me on this one..I am trying to catch up.

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