[AT] OT Question OT

[Jeff Pilbeam]

I cant believe anyone would still want 98 with all the problems with it.

Jeff's Jeep Barn
Britton Mi
Pilbeam's Centennial Farm
Tecumseh Mi

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of David A.
Laughead Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:08 PM
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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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> 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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