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Old November 10th 04, 06:51 PM
Steve
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Default Can I make a new partition on a HD and do a fresh install from the DOS prompt in that partition?

I have two hd's(C: and D C: came with my Dell PII and D: is newer and
bigger. I had BootitNG make a new 5GB partition on the D: drive(which has
some data on it, in other partitions, already). My question is, when I am in
DOS and the prompt is Fnew partition) and I run setup on my Windows 98 cd,
will it only affect the F: partition?

I started this process and setup ran, scanned all the drives and started
to install 98 but I chickened out because I wasn't 100% sure where the new
OS was going. Will it only go into F: and leave all else alone?

Also, I hid all the other partitions in BootitNG.

Thanks for your help,


Steve


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Old November 10th 04, 07:02 PM
Don Phillipson
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"Steve" wrote in message
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I have two hd's(C: and D C: came with my Dell PII and D: is newer

and
bigger. I had BootitNG make a new 5GB partition on the D: drive(which has
some data on it, in other partitions, already). My question is, when I am

in
DOS and the prompt is Fnew partition) and I run setup on my Windows 98

cd,
will it only affect the F: partition?


Standard installation can be only to C:\

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Old November 10th 04, 07:49 PM
Steve
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I did try unplugging C:, changing jumpers on D: and installing Windows.
Unfortunately, I think I put the IE update on D: and the installation won't
boot. I get error messages that system.ini is calling for files that are
missing but I checked and they are there. I also get error messages that
make me think the new windows is using the autoexec from my old windows.
Mostly because it can't find the anitvirus file that is only on C: and has
not been installed yet. The other thing that happened is when I plugged C:
back in the new Windows Explorer wouldn't show it.

This felt like a lot of work to fix. Maybe I should try again? Any
ideas? Should I move everything off of D:, unplug C: and try again?

Thanks

Steve


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Old November 10th 04, 11:23 PM
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Don Phillipson wrote:

"Steve" wrote in message
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I have two hd's(C: and D C: came with my Dell PII and D: is newer

and
bigger. I had BootitNG make a new 5GB partition on the D: drive(which has
some data on it, in other partitions, already). My question is, when I am

in
DOS and the prompt is Fnew partition) and I run setup on my Windows 98

cd,
will it only affect the F: partition?


Standard installation can be only to C:\


Bootitng will let you install the bulk of the OS to the second drive
with (only boot files on the c-drive) or go he

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=186

to find out how to install it completely to the second drive.
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Old November 10th 04, 11:44 PM
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Steve wrote:
I did try unplugging C:, changing jumpers on D: and installing
Windows. Unfortunately, I think I put the IE update on D: and the
installation won't boot. I get error messages that system.ini is
calling for files that are missing but I checked and they are
there. I also get error messages that make me think the new windows
is using the autoexec from my old windows. Mostly because it can't
find the anitvirus file that is only on C: and has not been
installed yet. The other thing that happened is when I plugged C:
back in the new Windows Explorer wouldn't show it.

This felt like a lot of work to fix. Maybe I should try again?
Any ideas? Should I move everything off of D:, unplug C: and try
again?


What is it you want to do? If you want another drive to have
Windows - as it is on your C: drive now, not a clean install - then...

1. Make a primary, *bootable* partition on a second physical drive
2. Copy C: to the new partition


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Old November 11th 04, 12:27 AM
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You are confusing yourself by using DOS drive lettering terminology where
it's not appropriate. DOS assigns drive letters to partitions it sees at
boot time in a specific order. This assignment can be changed if your boot
loader hides or 're-arranges' the partitions in some way, so when you are
using a boot loader you have to think about drive letters in a very
different way. By default, Windows will be installed to the "C" drive, but
whether this is the primary partition on the master drive on the first IDE
device, or some other partition on some other drive depends on what the boot
manager has done. If you have configured BootitNG to boot into DOS so that
the partition you created on your second drive is seen as the first
available DOS partition, then this will become the default installation
partition for Windows. When you boot in some other configuration, the
default (C partition will be a different partition.
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"Steve" wrote in message
...
I have two hd's(C: and D C: came with my Dell PII and D: is newer
and
bigger. I had BootitNG make a new 5GB partition on the D: drive(which has
some data on it, in other partitions, already). My question is, when I am
in
DOS and the prompt is Fnew partition) and I run setup on my Windows 98
cd,
will it only affect the F: partition?

I started this process and setup ran, scanned all the drives and
started
to install 98 but I chickened out because I wasn't 100% sure where the new
OS was going. Will it only go into F: and leave all else alone?

Also, I hid all the other partitions in BootitNG.

Thanks for your help,


Steve




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Old November 11th 04, 01:01 AM
Steve
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I want a clean install on my new D: drive


Thanks

Steve


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Old November 11th 04, 01:11 AM
Steve
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I can see I'm going to have to go back and reread my BootitNG documentation.
Thanks for the link.


Steve


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Old November 11th 04, 01:26 AM
Steve
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Okay Jeff,

If I understand your answer, I can use BootitNG boot to my newly
created partition on my new hard drive and I can install a pristine Windows
98 there. Then when I turn on my computer again and get Bootit's menu, I'll
have a choice of the new or the old Windows. Right?

By the way how do you get the previous message to show up in Outlook
Express?

Thanks for taking the time Jeff,

Steve




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Old November 11th 04, 03:04 AM
Jeff Richards
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Yes - that's exactly the way this type of boot manager works. Except that
you'll already have the choice of which partition to boot to _before_
installing Windows - that's how you got BootitNG to boot you into that new
pristine partition before you did the Windows install. So if you make the
same selection you did for the install, you'll get the newly installed
Windows.

For the OE problem, look at Tools / Option / Send / Include message in
reply.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Steve" wrote in message
...
Okay Jeff,

If I understand your answer, I can use BootitNG boot to my newly
created partition on my new hard drive and I can install a pristine
Windows
98 there. Then when I turn on my computer again and get Bootit's menu,
I'll
have a choice of the new or the old Windows. Right?

By the way how do you get the previous message to show up in Outlook
Express?

Thanks for taking the time Jeff,

Steve



 




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