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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (4384)	12/20/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP My preference is to keep everything on one partition and add a second partition if there is a good reason. I would make the early installations to the C drive and watch the size. Sounds logical and prudent. Except for the Ecel, Quicken, Wp level sw my intuition was correct, thats encouraging..... I prefer to put Excel in a directory (folder) named excel, Quicken in a directory named quicken etc. If the directory names are kept short and meaningful they are easy to remember and find. Then you would love MacOS file system. This is how I learned and would agree with you that it is preferable. When I install software I usually do not take the default directory. I was not aware that Windows gave the opportunity to name a directory/folder any thing you want. I'm very glad to here this:-) Clarence

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (4384)	1/3/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP After a series of unavoided distractions I'm trying to get back to BigBoy's sw setups. All i've done so far is get some trackball sw working and install Aopens Hardware Monitor on the w98 drive since its setup would not open in NT. I mentioned cpu running a cool 77 deg F but 0 rpm reading for the cpu fan althought I visually confirmed its running OK. The cpu fan wiring is connected to the mb ok. I do not know why a reading is not being transmitted. Hardware Monitor reads one of the case fans (not sure which one) without problem but not the cpu fan. Direct Image install My preference is to keep everything on one partition and add a second partition if there is a good reason. The DI manual indicates an installation to WinNT must be in a FAT partition. My primary master drive with NT is now one big 6.4 g NTFS partition (if no partitions= 1 partition). Does this qualify as reason enough to create a second parition formatted FAT 32? The primary slave with w98 is already formatted FAT 32 so I'm going to go ahead with a DI install on this drive first. Clarence