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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (4745)	1/8/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

There's no need to use multiple partitions, either. You can make multiple NT installs on the same partition in different directories. I agree - a second NT install is a very good investment of 100 MB or so (slightly less). Then you can repair ANYTHING but boot file errors and hardware failures. The NT setup procedure can fix a corrupted boot, usually. I have a 500 mb FAT c partition in which I have a backup NT setup (and Win 95 and DOS and Win 3.11 for that matter). The whole shebang is about 200 mb. Since it's FAT, I can repair a corrupted NT boot environment from my handy DOS-bootable floppy where I keep NTLDR, BOOT.INI and NTDETECT.COM, (and bootsect.dos and a copy of the C drive master boot record plus a few DOS utilities, such as edit.com).