ME did not like my Tekram SCSI 390 u card.  Flashing the SCSI bios didn't
help and niether did a variety of different and updated drivers.  I kept
getting  sporadic "Unable to read drive C:" blue screens.  These screens
would go away with the tap of a key on the keyboard; however, one would
never know when a system file might be in access at the time and that was
when my OS crashed.

By the way, both Windows and Norton showed no errors or bad blocks on the
hard drive.

Windows ME also doesn't give you the ability to boot or use a DOS screen.
If you want a command prompt, you have to boot with a floppy.

I'm not sure most of our software and hardware is ready for ME yet.  But
hey, with a multiple boot, what's to lose?   Give it a shot.

--gary r. tennesen
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----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Stubbs" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:10 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] partitioning questions


> Hi, I have full retail install version of winME( I won it at a raffle).
> I also have been using win98SE for some time now and enjoy it
> very much on 3 systems, as well as Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a multi-boot
> system. As a power user, I have been told that winME "sucks".
> However, I have just built a new system, and would like to partition
> it out to have several OS. I particularly want winXP when it comes
> out, on one of the partitions. I have Partition Magic 6.
> Please advise as to partitioning scheme
> I should take, and what is major difference between win98SE
> and winME let me know what is frustrating).
> have a 30gig drive as primary drive, and a 40gig drive as a secondary
> drive(brand new). I was thinking of fdisk(with my win98SE startup
> diskette) and make a 2 gig primary active partition(install winME) and
> rest extended partition/(install Partition Magic 6 to it) and make another
> Primary partition(not active,hidden) of  2gig  for "XP" and then have
> entire 40gig secondary drive as extended partition. How much space
> should each OS probably take for primary partition? What would be
> ideal size? I know that Linux likes to have more that 2 gig for full
install.
> I made mistake once of making a 250Meg ext2 partition for Linux, and I
> actually got a GUI install of Linux with that small a space, but I learned
a
> lesson.Would it be better to have Primary Active partition on 30gig
> primary?and then just make a Primary(hidden) partition on the 40gig
> secondary drive? Describe your best partitioning scheme to me.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Susan Stubbs
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