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To: pae who wrote (3408)	11/4/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

Is there any logic to drive letter assignment? Like Primaries first, even though they are on 2 different physical drives, then the "extended" partitions? Yes, the method you list above is the standard method. I hate to give up a serial port to the mouse, is there a way to 'adapt' this to the mouse port? Thanks. No, to the best of my knowledge unless the mouse has been designed to be used with both a serial and mouse port a serial mouse can not be used with a mouse port. See post 3342 where I previously asked this question.

To: pae who wrote (3408)	11/4/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I hate to give up a serial port to the mouse, is there a way to 'adapt' this to the mouse port? Thanks. More information on this question from Scott Mueller's book "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" eight edition page 372. "A hybrid type of mouse can plug into both a serial port or a mouse port. This combination serial PS/2 mouse is the most popular type because it is more flexible than the single design types. Circuitry in the mouse automatically detects the type of port to which it is connected and configures the mouse automatically. Sometime people use adapters to try and connect a serial mouse to a mouse port. This does not work and is not the fault of the adapter. If a mouse does not state that it is both a serial PS/2 type mouse it will only work on the single type of interface for which it was designed."

To: pae who wrote (3408)	11/4/1998 9:47:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Clearly Partition Magic is in my future. <g> Do I need disk-copy too? Don't want to get to elaborate. KISS works well - but what about when only YOU think the setup is simple? Yes to Partition Magic..skip Drive Copy but get Drive Image. Drive Copy is incorporated in Drive Image. Partition Magic has become a basic utility IMO. It can be used for anything to do with creating , changing and resizing partitions. Drive Image is a great backup program. Nothing elaborate here. Make a backup file of your primary partition and keep it on another drive or partition. It will then be available for quick restore ( in one of those rare cases that Win/NT skips a beat:) The above comment only address a quick restore option..it is not a backup strategy. What is KISS? The NT disk is bootable..just put it in the CDROM drive and turn on the machine to install NT. (mobo bios must support CROM boot option, most new ones do) Congratulations solving the cable problem! Zeuspaul