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To: Michelino who wrote (524)	4/28/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: ojai	Respond to of 14778

Michelino- Thanks for the info, I'll follow up on the leads you gave. I do have my drive set to fat 16, and I have done the backup floppy recommended during the install. I had no idea this would be so complicated! -ojai

To: Michelino who wrote (524)	4/28/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Don't leave home from FAT partitions under NT without a small bootable fat partition and NTFS DOS. These are the tools that disaster recoveries are made from. I AM NOT KIDDING. I keep DOS, Win 3.1, and Win 95 bootable from a fat partition on my NT systems. If you're smart (which I will admit I have not always been), the fat partition will be on the same physical disk as the NTFS partition. You may or may not want to run NT from an NTFS partition, depending on your needs. I need network security plus compression (both of which require NTFS in practical terms, though you can do limited security with fat). NDFS DOS is a lifesaver. You can no-kidding access NTFS partitions (read only) from DOS, win 3.1 and Win 95. I has saved my bacon many times. (As usual I'm remiss in keeping up to date on it, but a couple of months ago the version I loaded last fall saved many many hours of anguish after NT crashed. The crash was my fault, BTW, but placing the blame doesn't help you recover! NTFSDOS DOES help you recover <G>). Spots