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To: RJL who wrote (6670)	3/8/1999 1:31:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

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.. From the bootmagic manual Windows NT can be installed in either a primary or logical partition on any harddrive: however, the NT boot partition containing the files NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.ini must lie completely within the first 2 GB of the first harddrive in a primary partition I have no experience with bootmagic but it does not look like you can have isolated OSes in Primary partitions..at least not with NT in an after 2 gig partition..as your experience seems to indicate. The other primary would be hidden to the other OS so that only two drives show up. The C: and the D: (Data) The rules say an OS will assign a drive letter to recognized partitions. This does not seem to be the case with NT. I have NT on a first harddrive and Win95 on a second harddrive in a FAT32 partition. NT assigns the second drive a letter even though it cannot recognize the format. In Explorer one clicks on D and an error message appears...file system( or something similar) unknown. Perhaps it is different if the partitions are all on one drive. The other primary would be hidden to the other OS so that only two drives show up. The C: and the D: (Data) I am a little confused. Is the 1 gig FAT16 partition first?..it will always be C ? or is it D if boot manager boots another partition first? 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. Do you mean Win98 would not boot? ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated. What are your priorities? C drive followed by D data in both NT and Win98? Why FAT16?..is it for a file system common to both OSes? Is the FAT16 the D data drive? Zeuspaul