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To: RJL who wrote (2106)	2/26/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: Steven Bowen	Respond to of 110634

Richard, Thanks a ton for that excellent post. Everyone should understand everything you said there and make those disks. You will sooner or later need this stuff. I'll print it out and study it. I have two computers and two CD's; one version A, FAT16, and one version C, FAT32. Problem was, didn't have a good start up disk for FAT32 to load OSR2 onto the FAT16 machine. Any start up disks made on the FAT16 machine forced me to partition the hard drive (8.4G's), as it should. Any start up disk made on the FAT32 machine gave me errors when read by the FAT16 machine (some sort of systen errors, don't recall now). May be a way to make the start up disk on the FAT32 computer but then copy system files from the FAT16 machine, but I couldn't figure a way to do it that still didn't force me to partition the drive. Probably something Bill Gates doesn't want to be easily done. Doesn't really matter now, I gave up and partitioned the hard drive and used FAT16. The problem that bothered me is I read that partitioning and using FAT16 on large hard drives can waste up to 40% of the drives capacity. Oh well, even at 60%, it will still take me a long time to fill up the 5 Gig's. Again, thanks for the info you posted. Like you said, everyone should print it out and keep it. It will become important to them some day. Steve And PS, if you had start up disks and got a new computer, make sure you make new start up disks. I don't think start up disks made on one computer will work on another.