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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (6915)	3/31/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: RJL	Respond to of 14778

Hi Dan, With the new box I set up at home, I finally used PM 4 to create 4Gb NTFS (deleted during NT setup and recreated FAT16 then later converted back to NTFS), a 5Gb FAT32 and a 2Gb FAT16. I set up both the NTFS and the FAT32 partitions as primary and use PQ's Bootmenu to select the OS I want to boot to. I use the FAT16 partition for data sharing between the two OS's. Seems to work ok. You wouldn't have to kill the 98 setup, just move the partition down and create the NT before it. I've done it before. Just make sure you set both the NTFS and FAT32 partitions as primary's. Like you suggested at the end of your message though, it's often a lot easier to start from scratch the way you like it. :) Later, Rich

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (6915)	3/31/1999 10:36:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I don't know of any way to dual boot a Fat32 and NTFS partition except with a boot manager that understands them both. You could dual boot NT on Fat16 from Win98 on Fat32, though. If you find out how to do it from NT, let us know! NT 5 is cheating <gg>.

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (6915)	3/31/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I prefer a small (500 meg) c: FAT16 primary and then a fat32 WIN98 partition and then a NTFS NT partition. For this simple boot I have usually used the NT boot menu, I am a little confused. My understanding is..using the NT OS loader as a boot manager..Win98 would reside in a FAT16 primary partition at the beginning of the drive. You could have a FAT32 partition that Win98 could see and use but the original install would be in the first FAT16 partition. Standard procedure would be to install Win98 first in a FAT16 partition and then install NT. NT would detect Win98 and setup the dual boot during the install process. If my understanding is correct you are almost there. All you would have to do is use Partition Magic to convert and resize the FAT32 partition to a 500 MB FAT16 partition and then install NT. Then you could setup the NTFS and FAT32 partitions (not sure how..both in extended partition??). Zeuspaul