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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4269)	12/15/1998 9:44:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Acutally I disagree then. FAT16. SEan

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4269)	12/15/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

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. Actually I think Sean and I agreed on this one. I was proposing FAT 16 for your second drive. It seems to me that your primary NT installation should see the second drive. I mentioned FAT32 as an alternative with reference to the drive lettering issue. It sounds like FAT16 has been decided on so the issue becomes a drive lettering issue. Your primary NT installation will be C. The first found active partition on the second harddrive will be D. The lettering then continues with the extended partitions on your primary drive making the second partition on your primary drive E. I believe this is the case regardless of the number of the partitions on second drive. I do not see a problem here. Live with C and E on the primary drive. The important issue is consistency. Once you install software you do not want to be changing drive letters. I would hold off installing any software on the E drive at first. IMO start with the OS and your primary software installations on C. It will be easier to clone. The drive letter on your CDROM will change depending on the combined total of primary and extended OS recognized partitions on the first two harddrives. This total may change as you configure and reconfigure your KOT drive. I would map the CDROM drive. Pick a letter such that there is room for all anticipated partitions +... perhaps K. I do not like i or j as they are sometimes difficult to distinguish. Zeuspaul