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

To: White Shoes who wrote (4116)	12/10/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

Would I be better off trying to reinstall Windows? Or trying to upgrade to Windows 98?) But a slow interim step maybe. My first suggestion is to make use of a second harddrive. You indicated that you want to use a minimum of cash so I will give you my thoughts on using one drive. First make sure you have all your important datafiles backed up on your zip media. I would buy Partition Magic. You may be able to accomplish the task to a limited degree with FDISK. You can created and delete partitions with FDISK but I do not think you can resize them and move them around without loosing data. With Partition Magic you can resize your primary 3GB partition to 1.5 GB. You run some risk here with a bad drive of loosing everything. After resizing the partition there will be 1.5 GB free space at the end of the first partition. You have a couple of options. You can format the free space as a second primary partition using Partition Magic or you can use Partition Magic to clone the first partition to the second partition. If your first installation is faulty cloning will not work as you will copy the problem. If the second partition hangs like the first one delete it and install Win95 from scratch on the second partition. I am assuming you have a Win95 installation disk. If you want Win98 you could install Win98 instead. Win98 is nothing to get excited about IMO unless you need the multimonitor capability. You may be able to set something up with the included Partition Magic boot manager. I believe it is as good as or better than other boot managers. I have no experience using boot managers. Since you are trying to isolate your harddrive into two components I would skip the boot manager for now. With Partition Magic you can hide and unhide partitions. You can also make them active. The machine will boot from the first active partition. To boot from the second partition with the new Win95 installation execute Partition Magic and set the second partition active and deactivate? the first partition. This should boot the second partition. If it does not hide the first partition instead of deactivating it. If you have to hide the first partition you will not see it when you boot the new installation. In this case you will have to boot back and forth between the installations and use the zip to copy files. If the first scenario works the first partition will show as the D drive and you will be able to copy files directly. Hopefully someone will clear this up for us. Once you have the second installation working you can delete the first partition and repeat the process in reverse. You could also try installing Win95 over itself on the first partition. If you clone the new installation into the newly created free space at the beginning of the drive the free space is formatted and checked in the process. At this stage you can play a little with the location of the partition. If you can determine where the bad area of the drive is you can leave it as free space. REAL DOS I have a high end CAD program that will not run in a DOS window in WIN95. The shut down and start up in MS DOS mode is completely independent of Win95 to the best of my knowledge. It should not affect a Win95 installation at all. I am not sure of the details but it is not hard to figure out. The standard autoexec.bat and config.sys reside somewhere as the same name with a different extension. You can edit these files to fine tune your DOS boot. When you shut down and start up in MS DOS mode these files are the ones used to load drivers etc. Typing exit will bring you back to the Win 95 OS. Zeuspaul