Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:02:24 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
In a message dated 1/19/2005 6:44:04 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: <snip> > Okay... now I'm curious. Did you go the way of installing those OSs > without drive overlay? I'll guess you did, and that you're not seeing the > problems I've been having with W98's Scandisk finding data problems on > partitions that W2K also accesses. Unless you've set things up so they > can't see each other's partitions or shared data partitions. > > Matt > > Yes, no drive overlay. I updated the BIOS to support W2K, installed W98se and then W2K. Both OSs see the entire drive, and share data (and Program Files) directories. They even share a swap/pagefile partition. This machine is 1999-vintage, so the BIOS probably supports >8GB drives. As far as Scandisk goes, I rarely run it. The L100 is very stable with W2K, and my extremely limited understanding of IDE HDDs suggests that it's not necessary to do more than the occasional defrag, which I do under W2K's Disk Management. Lee
