I would suggest you get at least a 15G drive and set a partition for
98/DOS and another one for W2K. It is a win-win situation : you have a
stable, secure platform for work; one reboot - and you can run all those
games and multimedia applications in 98. All the other drives will be seen
by both, while they're FAT32, and the OSes can't mess other one's
partition.

Even if you'll have to reinstall all the software you use, it will
probably fit in 4G, so 4+4=8 and you have 7G left as shared space... Quite
a lot, I'd say :)

This is what I'm going to do after I upgrade my HD...

<> Max Timchenko [MaxVT]
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Frank R. Brown wrote:

> Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
>
> Our goal for the system we are assembling is to put
> together a nice general-purpose system.  We will run
> a lot of 'generic' software' --- excel, netscape and/or ie,
> photoshop or similar, various games, and so on.
>
> We are not hard-core gamers, but would like to get
> some high-end stuff working, really as much for the fun
> of experimenting and for the specific games, per se.
>
> Since you have nt experience, could you comment on
> whether you see any nt (nt4 or w2k) incompatibilities
> with the system we're proposing?
>
> As far as gaming is concerned, legacy stuff is not a big deal.
> If 70, 80, 90% of modern games would run on our system
> with w2k, that would be fine.  If only 10, 20, 30% of games
> would run, we'd probably go with dos/windows (w98 or w-me).

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