Beware if installing two different installations of windows.  I tried to
install win95 and win98 and dual boot between them, and it wouldnt work.
The way I eventaully had to do it was to open the io.sys (or was it
msdos.sys) and make it point to the other partition.  And that would
definitly be unacceptable if one partition is garbaged.

I dont know if this is still a prob between Win XP and ME though.  I would
think it has been changed how they boot, but I dont know, so just beware.

And also, your partition sizes, those should be big enough.





On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Robert Hardesty wrote:

> I'm going to partition my 60 gig HD for the first time. After going through two total crashes,complete installs and reformats I want to create a small, second back-up O/S, to save down time, and allow me to have basic functions like a browser and email. I also want to create several small partitions for data backup (music, photos, program files and word documents). I'll be using Partitionmagic 7.0. My question is, how should I size these partitions? My main O/S will be Windows XP with MS Office 2000 Professional.I would like to use a smaller backup O/S and dual boot. I have a basic Win ME disk or should I use an open source O/S? I would like something very user friendly and I am familiar with ME (although it is a bit unstable). Perhaps someone knows of something smaller and easy to use.I would say Win 98 but I don't have access.
>
> Also, what would be the best size for these partitions? I was thinking 20 Gig for XP, 15 Gig for second O/S and dividing the other 25 Gigs into 3-5, 5 to 8 Gig storage partitions. I may be totally wrong about this, so any help on the second O/S and partition size and setup is welcomed.
>
> Note: Presently, I have 49 gigs on drive C, and 8 gigs on drive d, and both are ntfs which can't be changed back to fat 32 without format. Also XP is installed on drive C and one of the main reasons for partition is to protect it from a reformat or reinstallation.Manufacturer says I will get 60 gigs after partition.
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