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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (4114)	12/10/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: White Shoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Thanks for your concern, I really appreciate it. I suppose you are right, the two Win95 partition system could be an interim step on the way to using the new partition after everything slooowly gets either transferred over or archived on Zip disks. (Is this dumb? Would I be better off trying to reinstall Windows? Or trying to upgrade to Windows 98?) But a slow interim step maybe. I am sure there are other ways to go about it. I'm looking to spend very little cash on this if any. I just tried a utility called Data Advisor that seems like an elaborate version of Scandisk. It told me I have minor errors on my drive, but nothing serious. My concern is: on bootup as it stands now, right near the end of the Win 95 startup there are often noises that make it seem as if there is trouble reading the hard drive. Those aren't bad sectors...yet...but will be soon. Also, the fact that Scandisk didn't fully fix my problem before means that there are possibly some Windows files (obviously not essential) attempting to use an area of the drive that is damaged. So, I want a fresh start of sorts, but wonder if that could be done on the existing drive. It's just a couple of bad sectors. Regarding Madden: You definitely need REAL DOS. Using it from Windows 95 doesn't work very well. It also needs special drivers ("real mode drivers") which tends to be a pain. When I tried the installation in the past, it was working out fine...if all you wanted to do was play Madden. I found that I had created a Madden-friendly system that was playing havoc with my hardware configuration in Win 95. It's not supposed to be like that, but that's what happened. That's why I wonder if having a dedicated REAL DOS partition (maybe I could hunt up DOS 6.22) would mean I would have a Madden-friendly partition without screwing up my drivers in Win 95.