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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (6667)3/7/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: RJL  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
Partition Question:

Here's one for you all...

Goal is to have two OS's on the same system. Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. It'll go on a 10Gb IDE drive. Preferably, the Windows 98 will be a 5.5Gb FAT-32 partition, Windows NT on a 3.5Gb NTFS partition, and a 1.0Gb FAT-16 partition.

I'm currently toying with Partition Magic 4.0 and it's 'sidekick' program Bootmagic 1.0. I was hoping to set up the two OS partitions as primary's, and have the Bootmagic (anyone familiar with it?) activate the appropriate partition. The other primary would be hidden to the other OS so that only two drives show up. The C: and the D: (Data)

After dinking around with it for a day or so, couldn't get the NT one to boot, unless I shrank the FAT-32 (Primary-1) to under 2Gb so that the NTFS partition would fit under the 1024 cylinder barrier...at which point the boot manager would work just fine. Problem is, I'm stuck with a 2Gb FAT-32 in which I wanted 5Gb.

Played with it by making the NT partition first, and then trying to put the FAT-32 one afterwards, but came up with the same problem. Either I'm not doing it right, or I'm missing something.

ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Richard



To: Zeuspaul who wrote (6667)3/8/1999 12:03:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
ZP

CNC..stands for Computer Numeric Control

I see...the router attaches to some rigging which is in turn controled by CNC software.

Do you have to install the jumper cable?? or is it an option? Which series Dataport did you opt for?

I got the VII in both ide and scsi. I don't know if the hdd jumper cabling comes with other Dataports. It is optional use on the VII,as far as I can tell. All it does is tell Dataport how the drive is jumpered so an LED on the cartridge can lite up as either master or slave. They're just replacement jumpers attached to wires that go back to the Dataport board on the frame.

Is it w98 that can't see drives larger than 8.4 g as one volume? Like i said the 17.2 gig maxtor showed up in NT Disk Administrator as 16.something gig. I haven't gone into w98 to see how its seen from there. Simple enough to do...i'll take a look..

Good to have you back in position..I hope you and Spots are done traveling for awhile<g>

Clarence