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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5841)	2/3/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

'm learning as I'm doing so if an extended without any logical devisions is legit thats ok by me until I need another partitioned space for whatever... then I'll subdivide the extended into logical partitions. is that your train of thought? We might be talking semantics here..I think I agree. You will have an extended partition with one logical drive inside it. You create the extended partition first. It will look like a frame in PM. Then inside the frame you create the logical drive. The question is where do you want the extra free space? Inside the logical partition or outside? You can resize later. Try a 4 gig extended with a 2 gig logical to see what it looks like. You can adjust from there. I wasn't going to resize from the 1 gig. I just wanted to see what size PM was going to decide the partition was... 1gig or 8 gig. It chose 2 gig so I wanted to get smaller and picked 500mb over 1gig at the last minute. But if you feel 1 gig has better breathing room and still not to much to lose off ide 1.. I'll switch to 1 gig. Go for the gig. Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5841)	2/4/1999 1:01:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

extended without any logical devisions is legit They are a combo. I believe you have to have both. I reread my post and see where the confusion came from. I only referred to an extended partition. Perhaps my terminology is not up to spec. My intent was to indicate extended vs primary. One does not want two primaries on the same drive (unless one is me of course<g>). Some of my drives have two or more primaries. Remnants of past experimentation. You can have two primaries if one is hidden. I am catching up to you. I installed the second harddrive. I disconnected the first and jumpered the new drive to master. I then Installed Win95. I wanted to see if the video card defugalty would go away in Win95..it did not..same problem..arggh I am working toward a setup similar to yours. I will get there via a different route. I just tried booting an NT install disk in my SCSI CDROM drive. Same problem as Sean and Spots..it did not boot on the Mylex bt930 controller. I tried the disk in the IDE drive and the NT installation program initiated. I am ready to give NT another try. I will probably install it over Win95 in lieu of over Win98. (my current setup is one 17 gig drive with Win95(IDE1 slave) and one 17 gig drive with Win98 IDE1 master) with bios boot selection) I will backup the Win98 and Win95 installs with Drive Image before I install NT (just to keep in practice<g>) The intent is to make the KOT first. It will be setup as described by Spots ie NT/Win9x boot on KOT in FAT partition. 2 gig 'cause I got it and will probably use the drive for more than a basic utility drive. I want a Win98 installation available for??? I will clone the Win98 installation to a hidden primary partition on the KOT drive. Heck, with 17 gig why not? Then I will delete Win98 from IDE1 master and install NT in one large NTFS partition...hopefully, depends on whether or not NT feels like fighting me. Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5841)	2/4/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>> Good point...Spots indicated he had 3 or 4 OSs stored in 500mb. So I figured NT + 98 wouldn't be a problem ... Yes, 4. But two of them are DOS and Win 3.11; very small by today's standards. I just made my fat partition on my new drive 1 gig for more "breathing room" exactly as you put it. Of course that leaves 15 gb for the other partition <g>. Maybe it's just my nature, but I use nothing but primary partitions. I always have in the back of my head that I'll want to boot anything someday. NT can see multiple primaries. I'm not advocating this, just reporting it.