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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (945)	5/31/1998 10:08:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Respond to of 14778

Disk Isolation, dual boot, etc. "Is it possible to keep Win95 ( or NT ) contained? It might be tough maintaining two computers in one box if the OS decides to write files to drives as it sees fit." Hmm...I think one other way might be to install them on seperate drives, alternating which one is set to boot in the bios based on which OS you want to run. As I'm sure you've noticed, most bioses let you disable one or more connected hard drives. FWIW, I haven't had any problem with NT and 95 contaminating each other. "I think Win95 and NT could be kept totally isolated if the Win95 drive were formatted FAT32 and the NT drive were formatted NTFS as neither OS can read/write the format of the other. I doubt that there could be any interference." This should work also. "I would like the third and forth options as well, Win98, NT5 on third and forth drives. How would one contain Win95 and Win98 (NT4-NT5) on their separate drives?" Here, if you want absolute containment, I think the above bios-disable option may be your best bet. Dave

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (945)	6/1/1998 1:26:00 AM
From: LTBH	Respond to of 14778

The ff stuff are the fastfind indexes. If you hear your HD accessing regularly and are not doing anything, this is fastfind. I disable FF since is has been known to cause some problems (delete it from the start menu). If you do everything still works just fine. FF is an MS Office thing. Networm

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (945)	6/1/1998 11:04:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I second Networm's advice on fast find. Disable immediately. As far as I know, except for swap files, which you can control yourself, and for TEMP files, which you can also control, neither NT nor Win 95 write anywhere but on their own partitions and the inevitable scribbling on the C drive. boot.ini, ntdetect, ntloader, and your scsi driver (if booting from scsi) have to be in the root directory of the first partition of the C drive (read that the drive from which the bios reads the master boot record). Win 95 requires a small directory on the C drive with the same name as the win 95 directory on the boot drive (if boot drive is not the C drive), as well as a handful of junk in the C root directory. I don't know about Win 98. The real culprits are applications, such as MS office, Pagis pro, and various other paternal packages that "make your life easier" by making over your world in the idiotic image in the software designers fevered and none-to-large brain. Sorry, got a little carried away <G>.