What if you run Connectix or VMWare? This way you could have one main OS, best with either win2k or XP for memory management then virtual drives containing your guest OS's: DOS, 98, win2k or XP (and others as you so deem a need).
This way you no longer have to reboot between OS's and you can access all your data safely and quickly.
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html
http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5w.html
Peter Kaulback
In the hour of 04:55 PM 25/01/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke this:
Ed,
Thanks for writing to the list on this subject BUT the issue is actually
quite different than just as you have expressed.
The problem is that my system is not just going to be a single OS
system, such as apparently yours with XP - mine is going to be actually
a triple boot, with Win98SE, Win2K Pro, and WinXP Pro. Due to work I am
trying to deal with as well as some utility issues, I need to be able to
boot into any of the OSs.
What you have written is quite true for Win2K as well as WinXP, since XP
is based on the 2K engine. BUT the problem comes with 98 and Dos
operations, since it works in many ways quite different from 2K and XP.
One the most important is that, as far as I know, you do not have the
capability of changing drive letters especially of hard drive partitions
as you do with the other OSs. So the issues become one for me of how
things "naturally" show up, and try to maintain things from one OS to
the other OSs, otherwise I would have to write up myself a "cheat sheet"
of how things are set in one versus the others.
The biggest issue is I need to figure out which drive letter my primary
partition on the Promise connected hard drive will end up getting, when
compared to the hard drive connected to the motherboard controller -
will it end up, without any mods, as Drive D:, or follow the last drive
letter from my extended partition and its logical drives on the drive on
the motherboard controller.
The issue is MOST important if I have to boot up in Dos itself, which I
can if I go to boot for Win98 and then let it's menuing system work.
Since native Dos (not Dos from within Win98), of itself, does see the
drive or anything connected to the Promise card, it just ends up what is
connect and referred to by the motherboard controller.
The way things are right now, I probably am going to have to try it and
see what I naturally get as a result.
Ralph
Ed wrote:
>
> Ralph,
> It is quite easy to assign/change drive letters using WinXP.
> I am running 3-HD, and (1-ZIP250) on a Promise card, which I assigned as B:,
> however it is listed as Drive:(0)
> Drive-0 on Promise Card which I assigned as B:
> Drive-1 has three partitions C:, E:, F:
> Drive-2 has 3-partitions J:, K:, L:
> Drive-3 is my external USB listed as D:
> CD-ROM (0) H:
> CD-ROM (1) I:
> To change Drive letters inXP
>
> START-ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS-COMPUTER MANAGEMENT-STORAGE-DISK MANAGEMENT
>
> Simply assign a higher drive letter larger than any on the list to the drive
> you wish to change.
> For instance, to switch CD-ROM (0) from H: to I:, first assign CD-ROM (0)
> the letter M:
> which is un-assigned at the moment. Next, change CD-ROM (1) to H:
> Now change Drive: (1) M to I:
> I changed all my drive letters after I formatted, partitioned and
> changed/added HD.
> Hope this will be of some help.
> Ed
============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
