My advice:  leave it all alone.  My experience is that when the OS
platform is tinkered with unexplained things crop up later with the
computer.  Of course if you are re-formatting your hard drive then
certainly installing a Windows 98 SE system would work fine, but that
wasn't the question.

Kelly


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nelson Blachman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 12:30 AM
Subject: Eliminating System Commander?


>   In 1997 I bought a new computer on which I wanted to be able to use
both
> Dos 6.1, which I'd become accustomed to (along with Windows 3.1), and
> Windows 95, which I expected to migrate slowly to.  The sstore  where I
was
> buying it used Sysstem Commander to make this possible.  So now my
first
> hard drive is divided into two C: virtual drives, one for each of these
> purposes.
>
>   Having become totally blind in the past three or four years, I can no
> longer manage the DOS drive, which has only JAWS 2.  I've upgraded the
other
> drive to Windows 98SE and have JAWS 4 & 5 there.  With sighted help,
> Partition Magic has been used to move as much of the DOS partition as
> possible into the Windows partition.  It seems, however, that if I were
to
> change over from 16-bit addressing to 32-bit, the rest of the DOS
partition
> too could be shifted over, and additional hard-drive space would be
freed up
> by the smaller sector size (4096 bytes versus 32768).
>
>   However, I'm told that the System Commander user manual doesn't
explain
> how to get rid of this program, which I'd perhaps no longer need.  On
the
> other hand, maybe System Commander does useful things during the boot
up and
> I should therefore keep it.
>
>   So I'd be grateful to anyone who understands System Commander for
advice
> on whether to keep it or how to eliminate it and on whether it's safe
to
> convert to 32-bit addressing with System Commander still there.
>
>   I should add that I feel I have plenty of free space at the moment
not
> only in the Windows C: partition but also on the second hard drive,
which
> was added to my computer in 1998 so that the two C: partitions could
share
> files.  They don't see each other, but they both can communicate with
the
> second haard drive.
>
> Nelson Blachman
> Oakland, Calif.
>
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>
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