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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (4258)	12/15/1998 1:57:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Don't knock till you tried it. I did not think I was knocking boot managers. My understanding is NT is already installed or in the process of being installed. The PQ installation of their boot manager after NT is installed involves resizing, creating, activating and deactivating partitions. This seems a bit risky if you are operating on the only working OS and you are unfamiliar with the procedures. If the intent of the second drive/OS is to work in the event of a first drive failure be it software or hardware how does a boot manager help? Wouldn't the boot manager fail along with the drive? The PQ DOS is not really even a choice. The PQ boot diskette only includes command interpreter and MSCDEX. Its missing FDISK, FORMAT, XCOPY, etc. Its basically just a boot with command interpter. Can the PQ DOS be beefed up by adding the missing files? I can email files but can not email a DOS boot disc. If Clarence had a DOS system floppy created by Partition Magic in the installation process would he be able to add the required files and would the PQ supplied command interpreter be compatible with non PQ commands? I don't think the PQ is the best solution either..trying to put the options on the table. I don't want to spend Clarence's money for him..the PQ option would be free whereas Win98 is $99 +/-. I would probably just do a minimal 95 install instead of buying DOS. There is no reason to unplug any hard disks. I have created systems like this countless time and with OS/2 BM and a good fdisk program there are no issues. Overwriting stuff is not a problem if you know what your doing. Do you prefer Win95 to Win98 for DOS? Win98 seems to have better hardware support..it has CDROM drivers included on the installation disk. I overwrote my primary install when setting up this machine. I do not remember the details but Win 98 installed itself over the Win95 C drive installation. I told Win98 to install to E:\ as it was my third drive ( my memory might be?) but it ignored me and went right to the C drive. It puts me in the not knowing what I am doing category so in my case if I had only one working OS I would unplug the drive. You have BM for day to day application and can use the BIOS in case the main Physical Disk fails if you have 2 drives. Does the boot manager leave the bootable partitions active? The bios boot selection will only work with active partitions. Zeuspaul

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (4258)	12/15/1998 9:39:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Sean ZP wrote: If you format the Win98/DOS drive FAT32 you will not be able to see it in NT. This could be an advantage if you end up with two partitions on the NT drive and want to preserve the NT drive letters as C then D. (I know you can map drives in NT but prefer defaults if reasonable) AND You replied: Sounds good to me. Skip FAT32. Did you mean to say Skip FAT 16 since you have agreed with ZP here? And if I were to use w95 would FAT 32 also be the best format to use? My NT drive will have two partitions and I would like to preserve the C and D lettering as ZP suggests. Clarence