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To: NickSE who wrote (11465)	11/11/2000 3:07:27 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 14778

"If you choose NTFS, Win98 will not recognize any contents of that partition. I'm sure you know this already though. =)" i didn't but i do now. <g3> actually, i'd read it, but it didn't sink in properly until i experienced it. installed win2000 last night and i'm now dual booting with w98se. win2000 did not want to go onto the partition i had created for it with partition magic. and it was formatted for NTFS too. so i just followed the ms prompts and like you said, win2000 did install itself where i wanted it. it just had to format the space whereas i thought i'd already taken care of that via pm. i'm very happy with win2000 so far. like the os a lot. thanks for the comments and help. :) mark

To: NickSE who wrote (11465)	11/11/2000 4:37:01 PM
From: Greg from Edmonton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

A friend of mine was having his hard drive make dying noises on him, he is starting an internet business from his home machine. I will probably help him out later tonight with transferring his data on to a larger driving using Norton Ghost. With the data on his machine being extremely critical for his business, I have recommended that he look towards a RAID solution (Promise FastTrak 100 and a pair of 45GB IBM Deskstar drives, insist on at least having ATA/100 and 7200rpm). The FastTrak 100 is on Microsoft's Hardware Compatability List for Win2k. Also looking to see what motherboards currently support onboard RAID with at least ATA/66 IDE spec, I think there are a few and maybe it will be almost as cost-effective to go with a new motherboard. Not really seriously considering SCSI until he "outgrows" IDE first.