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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4639)	1/3/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

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. It sounds like you have also been able to boot to the two OSs with the bios. Hardware Monitor reads one of the case fans (not sure which one) without problem but not the cpu fan. My GUESS is it has to do with where the fan gets it power. Probably not all sources are monitored. 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). Now? did you change it? I recall your intent was two NTFS partitions on the first drive. No partitions is no divisions. ie you see the entire drive as one drive with one drive letter. Does this qualify as reason enough to create a second partition formatted FAT 32? Good question. FAT32? on which drive? If you leave it as it is you have two options to access the PowerQuest utilities. You can boot to the KOT drive and execute from there and you can execute the PowerQuest programs from floppies. NT users have been executing exclusively from floppies until the latest release. Neither of the above seems like an optimum solution to me. The boot to Win98 is ok but it is the KOT/utility drive and should be used as an alternative when the primary OS needs help..which seems to happen from time to time<g>. Perhaps the best solution is to put NT in a 1 or 2 GB FAT16 partition at the beginning of the Quantum harddrive. Then you can (unless there is more fine print) install the PowerQuest products in NT, your primary operating system. You would maintain two methodologies to boot the PQ products (not counting the last..last..last..resort floppy option<g>) Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4639)	1/3/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

Direct Image install...second thoughts The DI manual indicates an installation to WinNT must be in a FAT partition. And executed from DOS. I just reviewed the manuals and PQ's site. My FAT16 NT suggestion will not accomplish anything. In addition I assumed that PM or DI would convert formats. True but not for NTFS. PM will convert back and forth between FAT and FAT32 without data loss but I see no option in Partition Magic nor Drive Image to change from NTFS to FAT. Partition Magic is not an issue. Ver 4 has native support for NTFS..at least the way I read it. My thinking on Drive Image is you already have the best you can do. DI will not install in NT so second partitions will not accomplish anything wrt executing from the NT environment. Your two options for Drive Image are booting the KOT and booting from floppy. A small FAT partition at the end of the NT/Quantum drive might be a consideration. You could use this to keep a harddrive accessible Drive Image of ?? From my reading...Drive Image files have to be kept on a FAT or FAT32 partition if they are to be called from Drive Image for restore. Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4639)	1/4/1999 6:50:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

On partitions, etc. Clarence, I VERY STRONGLY recommend you hold it where you are and get thoroughly familiar with your system without adding/deleting/removing/etc partitions of any kind. Boot to NT, run it, install some software, get familiar with it. Then you will be able to ask intelligent questions and make informed decisions. It is VERY EASY to do something you will regret. Whereas almost no matter what happens unless lightening strikes your disks (in spite of that UPS you have, right?<g>), the worst that will happen to you is you extract some valuable data you accumulate in the next few weeks, rebuild the system, reload the data, and start over. I am NOT suggesting you postpone data backups. I AM strongly recommending you do not try to set up more OS's, partitions, KOT strategies, partition types, or anything else until you get a few weeks of use under your belt. Do you have a backup strategy for your data? If so, use it and relax. If not, THAT is your number one priority. You will not have so much skin in the game for the next few weeks that you can't reinstall the entire set of OSs from scratch if you have to. In fact, that's not a bad idea anyhow, because you're bound to do things you wish you hadn't as to organization. BUT: Make those recovery disks; make those boot disks; make those DOS bootables; rah, rah, rah! Spots