Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:57:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 & partitioning
I just realized that I may not be able to do a new installation of W2K on
the 1st primary partition of this 40GB HDD, and have it dual-boot the copy
of W98 that's living on the 2nd primary partition that follows it. That
copy of W98 thinks it's installed on C:, as Partition Magic hid the 1st
partition with W2K on it when I created that 2nd partition and made it
active.
If I were to make both partitions visable when I re-install W2K, then W98
will find itself on a D: partition. I'm guessing W98 is not going to like
that any more than W2K would have liked its image restored and thinned down
further down the drive at E: or beyond.
Or is W2K's boot manager capable of hiding W2K's partition when W98 is
booted and visa versa? Can I leave the W98 partition hidden when I install
W2K, and then have W2K's boot manager set things up to boot both OSs as C:?
To answer you question about why I hide partitions a Philip, I remembered
something in the process of experimenting with Partition Magic tonight.
It's something PM does automatically when you already have a primary
partition with an OS on the HDD. When you create a new primary partition,
PM will hide that new partition by default. If you make it active, PM will
hide the existing primary partition with an OS on it by default. Through
the years I guess I've just been accepting with what PM was doing
automatically.
Matt
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PS: Just caught your last post as I was submitting this one Philip. I see
now that W2K >can< create partitions. However it doesn't seem to deal with
hiding or unhiding partitions PM plays with, nor rezize and/or move
partitions.
>From what you say about FDISK running from a desktop that fully supports
Int13 extensions, it would seem that running FDISK /MBR on a HDD from the
Lib that way should work properly.
I'm having problems with PM changing the order of drive letters when I
insert a primary C: partition between the 1st primary, and the 33GB
extended partition that straddles the 8GB boundary with logical D: and E:
partitions on it. It keeps lettering the new 2nd partition F:, but I
suppose that's not a major issue. It can always be re-mapped in Windows.
Wonder if all partitioning software does that.
Sounds like I can just install a 2nd copy of W2K as a logical drive without
having to do further tweaks. You say you tweaked the registries of each of
your 3 Windows OSs to share folders. But that's not necessary, is it? I
can just install W2K to a logical drive, and be able to boot W2K1, W98, and
W2K2 individually... yes? And then later tweak things to share folders if
I get to it.
Does what you're saying about multi-booting mean W2K1's boot manager will
take over booting all 3 OSs? And does that answer my question about the
boot manager above? I'll get a boot menu with each of the 3 OSs including
and option to start the installed Recovery Console? Or will the Recovery
Console option get skipped until the copy of W2K1 or W2K2 is selected?
Big question though is this deal of hiding. The only way can see my
present W98 partition working is if it can be booted as C: Is that going
to happen?
And this:
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> In the end, what matters is what has been written in the MBR. No
> program will ever ask the BIOS for HD size, nor will any operating
> system; they will just accept the entries in the MBR.
I'm not sure if that's true with Partition Magic, is it? Even after the
partition tables are set up with partitioning software on a desktop fully
supporting int13 extensions, when the drive is pit into the Lib, PM still
cannot see all the partitions from Windows or DOS correctly without drive
overlay installed. Ironic, as I can boot the Lib from a FD, and run DOS
programs on partitions >8GB from the command prompt without problems.
> That's why
> using other disk partitioning SW than DOS/Win9x FDISK or
> partitioning the HD in another PC will very effectively bypass
> the Libretto's 8 GB HD size barrier.
I had to re-read that. You're saying that using partitioning software
>other than< DOS/Win9x based programs can effectively bypass the Lib's 8GB
handicap... yes. Meaning that PM, being DOS/Win9x based, just doesn't hack
it... yes?
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