[AT] OT Question OT

[charlie hill]

I'm glad he is happy.  I wouldn't go back to 98 unless I had to for some
reason.  XP has been flawless for me and to be honest I can't really tell
the difference between it and 98 except it doesn't crash and has some very
helpful bells and whistles that 98 doesn't.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David A. Laughead Jr." <daljr at bright.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Question OT


> I wouldn't be surprised if what Phil said is correct. A month or so ago a
> guy asked me to wipe XP off of his PC and put '98 on it. In the beginning
I
> hadn't realized that his XP was useing NTFS, I made up a boot disk for the
> A: drive so I could format the C: drive and still have a way too boot the
> PC. I wanted to test the boot disk before wipeing C:. Popped the boot disk
> in, and it didn't show the harddrive. It did however assign the cd-rom
drive
> as C:. I ran FDisk, and boom there was the harddrive in NTFS, deleted the
> NTFS partition made it FAT and presto I had the system just were I wanted
it
> to begin '98 installation.
>
> BTW the guy is happy with his decision to revert to '98.
>
> Dave Laughead
> Arcanum, Ohio
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Question OT
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>
> > One word of caution here. Both partitions must have the same type of
file
> > system. If the C: partition is NTFS and the D: partition is FAT, I don't
> > think they can be merged. I'm not 100% sure on this as I've never used
> > Partition Magic, but it only makes sense that it would be that way.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > > Walt: This can be dangerous but I use it in the classroom. Get a copy
of
> > >  Partition Magic that will handle Windows XP and merge the two
> > > partitions  into one. Then you will have a single drive of about 75G
> > > drive C:
> > > Backup your critical data before trying this and It will probably
delete
> > >  any data on the current drive D:, so be careful
> > > Can anyone tell me why Sony partitions their drives in this manner C:
of
> > >  15GB and D: of 60GB?
> > >
> > > Wayne
> >
> >
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