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To: Spots who wrote (4219)	12/14/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

A tad strong, I think<g>. Besides, NT isn't a boot manager, it's a multi-boot OS that can only "manage" (in its own fumbling way) copies of itself. Ah it was getting boring. need to stir up some interest. Fumbling is certainly an understatement here.... I guess I consider this essential is because I have been doing this 1985 and MS didn't come up with their crap until NT 3.5 came out some 8 - 10 years later.... Another point, which may or may not be minor: In my brief investigation of the boot manager that comes with Partition Magic (an adaptation of OS/2 boot manager, I think), I discovered that it hides the partitions with non-booting OSs it manages. I will not say I investigated thoroughly and there may be a way around it, but this would be totally unacceptable to my operation. Not an issue at all. it really doesn't. it only hides primary partitions when there are more than 1 on a physical disk. Same as FDISK would. Other than that it hides nothing. All extended paritions and drive letter(s) will be there.... Remember only DOS/95 need to boot off a primary parition. Netware, Linux, OS/2, and NT don't have this silly restriction. Sean