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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5112)	1/16/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

I think this time I'll take a G810 if I can find one. Last attempts were limited to P815 and I passed up on the more commonly available G810s. If I had it to do again I would probably opt for the G810 over my current P815. I do not make use of the high resolution capability of this monitor. I use 1280 X 1024 which the G810 will do just fine. The $ savings is significant. Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5112)	1/16/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Some more entertainment for Sean<g> My latest take on the recent discussions. Considering three points of view..Clarence, Spots, Zeuspaul 1. Go with Spot's design considerations on the KOT. I am not in a position to comment one way or the other on NT repair options. 2. Go with your expressed 'mirror concept'. In other words use the Primary NT installation to restore the KOT and the KOT installation to restore, mend,and..whatever the NT primary installation. Keep the concepts independent. In other words do not backup the KOT drive on the KOT drive. The above prepares you for both drive and OS failures. It is easy to do and you have the tools. I only present the sledge hammer options. In the event of failures I agree that one should attempt to understand and mend the failure before resorting to a complete drive restore. The sledge hammer has a rubber head so it will not dent or mar anything. Just be careful it does not bounce back and hit you in the head<g> How do you get there? Spots has covered the KOT drive procedure. I am not gonna touch that one<g> It looks like you will need Partition Magic as it is the only current option to change your FAT32 to FAT16. Install the program on both drives , Primary NT and Win98. You have a Drive Image of the Primary NT drive so cut to the bone and backup the KOT to the NT drive. How? Execute Partition Magic from the Win98 (or NT?, I indicate Win98 as I am familiar with Partition Magic executed from Win98). Resize the NTFS partition on the master drive. Choose a size..500 mb? gig? You need a gig+ free space at the end of the drive for the clone. If you go small, create your second NTFS extended partition too to address changing drive letter issues. Use NT or Partition Magic to create the extended NTFS partition..choose your weapon. Use Partition Magic to clone (copy) the KOT partition. Then hide the newly created partition (the one on the master drive). In the event of a KOT drive or KOT OS failure boot primary NT, execute Partition Magic and copy the partition back to the KOT. As you develop the KOT a la Spots, overwrite the hidden partition at the end of the master drive with the updated KOT. I do not know if NT will assign a drive letter to the hidden partition. It may as it assigned one to the unrecognized FAT32 partition. If it does it will most likely be E in the current setup. I would create all partitions before getting to far in the software load. You do not want to change drive letters after installing software. This includes making a decision on the partitions on the KOT. Zeuspaul