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To: Spots who wrote (6037)	2/7/1999 2:41:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

summer place, fitted out sparsely, maybe, but fitted out. It looks like I will be spending my summer in a cottage in Win95 land!<g> Partition Magic blew me away again! This time it took both drives down. I was doing a resize on the FAT32 drive and she froze again. Power off..power on..same old story. The drive with the corrupt partition boots BUT the NT drive..which was not involved with the operation would not boot. Well not exactly..NT would not boot but Win95 from the NT/Win95 combo would boot. Why?..missing file <winnt root> \system 32 \ntosk?nh? I once again reformatted with the Maxtor EZ drive utility as PM could not access the partition. This time I did it first time. I restored with Drive image and Win95 was up and running again. Next I restored the NT/Win95 combo. I restored the identical image earlier today and it worked. This time the restore executed without a problem but NT will not boot..same error message..missing file <winnt root> \system 32 \ntosk?nh? Well I wandered over to PowerQuest to check things out. Signed up for the forum so I could post (they get a D- for passwords..they gave me a zero that looks like an O between two letters and ditto with an I...I think they are testing me:) Anyhow there was a guy asking questions about a Maxtor drive that had a similar problem...only kinda similar. His drive was 4 gig and change. Also had a freeze and had to reboot and lost a partition. There was no response yet (I did not note the date of the post). I posted my experience. Then I checked the downloads. They have three 4.0 to 4.01 patches for PM. One each for NT, DOS and Win95/98. Two are 3 meg and one is 3.5 meg. I could not find any release notes on the site. After downloading 9.5 MB of files I checked out the readme file. No release notes there either..just install notes. It may be a conspiracy between PM, Maxtor and NT <g> Am I paranoid?? This time when I was in the EZ Maxtor utility I found something new. Push F1 if you are installing NT. OK, why not, that's my plan even if I install Win95 first. The message is my drives are not jumpered correctly for NT. Not a problem for Win95 but NT wants standard jumpers so Maxtor suggests rejumpering my drives to a standard configuration. Standard jumpers?? This is the Maxtor drive utility used on Maxtor drives. There is only one option. Master/single for the first drive and slave for the second. The jumper is either on or off. My only other jumper option is to put the drives on separate channels and make them both master or other. So is it Maxtor? NT? or PM? combination or all three?? I could always drop another three hundred bucks and pick up an IBM 7200 RPM 14 gigger like Sean has and jumper it master and use the Maxtor as slave just for fun..what the heck, I am on vacation in Dream land so why not?<g> Zeuspaul

To: Spots who wrote (6037)	2/7/1999 12:24:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

NT Drive designations..signatures..jumpers..Disk Administrator Upon further experimentation I found the Maxblaster EZ drive utility only reports NT incompatible jumper settings when I query about installing NT to the slave drive. After reformatting both drives with Maxblaster I was able to restore any Drive Image successfully?? I want the NT/win95 combo on the slave drive..it was initially setup on the master. So I restored the original combo to the alternate drive. The combo is now on the slave. On the first NT boot of the combo on the slave drive using bios boot drive select there was a pagefile message. I went to the pagefile configuration screen and the pagefile was set to the 'C' drive. I am booting slave so NT is using IDE position for 'C' drive in the pagefile screen...NOT boot sequence. Zero space was allocated..I assume this is because NT cannot see FAT32. NT is indicated as being on the D Drive..only way to tell is volume label. NT reports the opposite in NT explorer. I set pagefile to 200 MB min and 200 MB max on the 'D' drive...a best guess. I no longer get the error message. 1) NT Explorer designates the C drive as the slave..current boot drive. 2) The Pagefile designates master as the C drive..same boot as above. 3) Disk Administrator says my 'C' drive does not have a signature and offers to put one on for me..otherwise the drive will not be accessible to NT Disk Administrator. Is the signature applied to the MBR? My thoughts Since I lack sufficient knowledge and NT has multiple definitions of a 'C' drive I should probably install NT to the appropriate drive rather than install it to Drive A and then restore it to Drive B. Disk Administrator should probably be run first from the Primary NT install so signatures are properly assigned wrt the primary NT install. Zeuspaul

To: Spots who wrote (6037)	2/7/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Spots I can even argue against your favorite video driver, mouse driver, sound driver. I dispensed with sound and video drivers but used my mouse driver. I had the tool shed image in mind, too. I know what you mean about staring at VGA 640x480 though.. that might get changed. Speaking of passwords, Jon was able to configure my original NT with log-on password protection disabled. During my install,I thought I didn't have a choice, or so it seemed, but to give NT a log-on password. Now I can't find where to disable it, if its even possible to disable at this point.I do remember navigating to where Jon had disabled password protection now I forget where it is and find file hasen't been helpful. Can I still do this for the backup copy? Clarence