Ron Martell, question on 160GB drives and Win 98

She is in for problems and added expenses--see this web site for details:
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

If she wants to dual boot W2K, the easy way is to use a boot manager and
partitioning program such as:

BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other
partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use
as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike
the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for
FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles.

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Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Pat" wrote in message
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Hi Ron,

I've been trying to help a woman in alt.windows98. She has a Maxtor
160GB drive but doesn't want to update the OS (Win 98 FE) for a drive
larger than 137GB. Somehow she was able to partition and format the
drive to the full 160GB using Fdisk and the format utility.

Now she wants to limit the size of the drive to under 137GB (128GiB).
She has a 43GB C: and logical drives D, E, and F inside an extended
partition. If she deletes the F: drive she will be under the limit. The
question is; will having the extended partition going past the 137GB
limit cause problems? I haven't seen anything on the web relating to
this.

She said it took several hours to do the partition and format and would
rather not have to do it again to get the "above 137GB space" out of the
extended partition.


Also, a secondary question on a related issue, she wants to install
W2000 at a later date. I know nothing about W2000. Can it be installed
inside the FAT Ext Part on the space left by the F: drive and dual
booted? Or will it need a primary partition, as I suspect, outside the
FAT ext part. Will it dual boot with W98? Can it be on a drive other
than C:?

If you like you can read our discussion on alt.windows98.

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Pat