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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5990)	2/6/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>Really looking forward to see how you setup your new machines Yeah, me too <g>. I think a variation on yours, as a matter of fact (did you realize you were my staked goa ... uh ... testbed? <GG>). These BX6-2s will boot from ANY hard drive via bios setup (C,D,E,F, nominally speaking). I'm impressed. Can't get my network to work. I'm crushed. Oh well.

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5990)	2/6/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: David L. Carter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I thought someone here might have an idea why IE4 eats up all my system resources, memory and eventually I have to reboot. I have downloaded all the latest patches, etc. and I am bewildered. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Dave

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5990)	2/6/1999 4:46:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>DRIVE LETTER OF THE NT PARTITION WILL CHANGE EVERY TIME YOU CHANGE THE DISK CONFIGURATION ... That is, if you boot from the other partition (i.e., other partition is marked active). In pictures: IDE2: \|...P1 (has win98)...\|... P2 (hypothetical home of NT)...\| If you have P1 marked active, then you boot Win98 if you boot from IDE2 via the bios. Now, if you create PT and install NT there WHILE P1 is the active partition, then: 1. You will end up with a dual boot of NT and 98 when you boot IDE2. 2. The P2 drive letter will change every time you change your disk configuration. 3. You cannot mark P2 active and boot from it. The thing is, in this case NT's boot files (boot.ini, NTLDR, etc) will go into P1's root directory, even though P2 is where NT itself is (all but boot.ini etc). Personally I LIKE the dual boot; it's not as hard as has been made out. That way you can boot the drive from the bios and take your choice. Almost as good as a boot manager <g>. NT does, in fact, act as a limited and self-centered boot manager in this case. But I DON'T like the idea of changing the NT partition's drive letter with every configuration change. Not unless blue is your favorite color. Put all this together and you get NT and the other OS (98) in your case in the same partition. OR you use a boot manager OR you change active partitions with some outside means such as PM or FDISK from a floppy to control which partition you're booting from.