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dual booting ME & W2K off separate drives
I've just installed ME on one hard drive and W2K Pro on another. My question
deals with drive letter configuations. Both Drives are Western Digitals. Drive 1 is 13.6 G. Drive 2 is 80 G. Drive 2 was partitioned into a pair of 10G drives and one 60G drive (numbers rounded). When I boot up into the different systems, here's what the computer sees. (a: is 3.5 drive for both) Booting up in ME C: Win Me on 10G part of Drive 2 D: Unused 10G part of Drive 2. E: Unused 60G part of Drive 2. F: CD-ROM G: CD-DVD Booting up in W2K Pro C: Win Me on 10G part of Drive 2 D: W2K Pro on Drive 1 E: Unused 10G part of Drive 2 F: Unused 60G part of Drive 2 G: CD-ROM H: CD-DVD Drive 2 with W2K Pro is NTFS. Drive 1 with W2K is FAT32. I know ME doesn't recognize NTFS, so I understand why when the system is in ME mode it won't see Drive 2. My concern is having having different drive letters between the two OS. Only C: is common to both drives. All the other drive letters differ depending on the OS i'm using. Will this cause problems down the road? I'm still in the "rebuilding" process for both drives (started over, reformatted drives, installed ME first, installed W2K Pro second) and I've run into a few glitches (browser freezes up trying to go to second page using Explorer 6) but again, I haven't finished all the updates, reloads, ect ... Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. System: A7V8X-X Motherboard AMD 2200 Athlon CPU 1048 K of Ram (already limited to 512 in ME) Internet via Cable Modem |
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You could fdisk/format the ntfs drives as fat32, that way both OSes would
see the same thing. Other than that, unless you have an external device that needs to access your machine, the only problem I imagine would be keeping it straight in your head. BTW, you *don't* need to limit your memory to 512MB in WinME, just the vcache parameter in systems.ini Rick and it still annoys me that even though my LS drive is accessible as A: I can't tell the OS that my optical drive is B: "=?Utf-8?B?c3RhZ2dlcmxlZTIyOA==?=" wrote in : Booting up in ME C: Win Me on 10G part of Drive 2 D: Unused 10G part of Drive 2. E: Unused 60G part of Drive 2. F: CD-ROM G: CD-DVD Booting up in W2K Pro C: Win Me on 10G part of Drive 2 D: W2K Pro on Drive 1 E: Unused 10G part of Drive 2 F: Unused 60G part of Drive 2 G: CD-ROM H: CD-DVD 1048 K of Ram (already limited to 512 in ME) |
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