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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7402)	5/6/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>... So.. then installing from the other OS is not recommended, I take it. No, that one you took wrong; just a warning of the consequences. The real pain doesn't ensue from the second install. The pain occurs after trying to switch back and forth between OSs to run them. Sorry if the images got in the way of the communication (though they seemed to communicate the level of pain satisfactorily <VBEG+heheheh>. What I really recommend is to pick your OS, install everything from it, and use it; back it up for KOT (NOT for data protection); have a satisfactory plan for data protection totally independent of KOT backups; and independent of all of these, have an OS backup which you can boot when you f**k up the primary OS, the purpose of which is to allow you to repair the primary. We've discussed what should go in this before, though it may be a time to reiterate. That I don't have time for, but as a highlight, a network connection (because you have to be able to download fixes and ask us how to recover); text editors; recovery utilities, whatever they are (like PM), and your essential work aps in case you have to run the backup longer than you want. An alternative to the latter is a backup on another machine, my MUCH preferred alternate. Gotta run, but keep asking. Spots

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7402)	5/7/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Ouch..lol, interesting phraseology Spots... So.. then installing from the other OS is not recommended, I take it. Then we're back from wence we came..or am I misunderstanding you. Since I don't know 'IF these aps update the registry and/or ini files in the Windows directory', seems like sometime somewhere they would, then that would be reason enough not to install from the other drive. your right. you don't know unless you try each one.... sucks huh?? Sean