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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (6119)	2/9/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>problems are everywhere ... Actually I have had no problem at all except for being unable to boot NT from a very large partition. I brought a cloned NT over from another PC, brought it up, then installed a new NT from CD into a 2GB partition on one of the 17g drives, booted it, added SP4, and formatted the rest of the drive. Then I cloned a backup NT from the new install onto a 1G FAT partition on a second 17G drive (preformatted on another PC). Easy as pie. Well, easy as shoveling horse manure, anyhow -- not a lot of fun but there are far worse things. Wasted a lot of time trying to boot NT from a large partition, but other than that, no problem. Oh, yes, I did have an argument with my primary domain controller when I booted the NT cloned from another PC without changing its name (are you reading this Clarence <g>?). Said I wasn't to be trusted <ggg>. BTW, I had absolutely zero trouble with the Matrox G200 latest unified driver install. Went in slick as an oiled eel. I suspect Clarence's problem had something to do with installing it after the driver from the CD rom. Funny, though: my original download wouldn't execute (said "not an NT executable"), downloded again (exact same file name, rev level) no problem. Maybe Matrox replaced it without a rev change. Sounds like Metastock (now THERE'S a cheap shot<gg>). The net of all this is the following layout, in case anyone's insterested: Disk1: \|<-- 2GB NTFS / Primary NT-->\|<-- 14GB NTFS / No OS -->\| Disk2: \|<-- 1GB FAT / Backup NT -->\|<-- 15GB NTFS / No OS --->\| I haven't put DOS and Win95/98 on yet, but clearly FAT's the place. I'll boot them from the bios (or rejumper the drives in an emergency). I'm thinking about Win 98 rather than Win 95. I haven't played with it at all to speak of and people keep asking questions about it <g>.