is this partition magic, able to be installed with out having to fdisk your
hard drive.
also what about backing up the existing files on your hard drive.
simon.
At 13:00 16/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>by the way i forgot, a person can use partition magic you just have to remove
>the key.
>the key does not have to be on the harddrive in order to use jfw.
>reinstall the key after useing it.
>
>bill cameron
>
>At 11:30 AM 3/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Scott, stay clear!!!! We tested system commander and lost tons of
>>authorization keys, due to system commands manipulation of the boo sector
>>of the hard drive and other data. It apparently upsets jfw greatly. I would
>>even avoid the use of partitionmagic or any utility to upsets the
>>configuration of your hard drive, unless you want to continually move keys
>>around or keep pestering hj for reset codes or the like. It is more trouble
>>than it is worth. Besides, why would you want to run 95 anmd98, they are
>>very much alike except for a few differences, mostly under the hood. If you
>>wanted to run 95/98 or nt, then make separate hard drive partitions and run
>>off that. I don't know if system commander is a great idea in general, and
>>it is a bad idea for jfw users.
>>At 07:51 PM 3/12/99 , you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Listers,
>>>
>>> Has anybody heard of system commander? This is a dos program that
>allows
>>> you to have up to thirty different operating systems on your computer. when
>>> your system boots up, it boots into dos, and you can choose which operating
>>> system to let boot up on your pc. Lets say you want to upgrade to windows
>>> 98, or even 2,000 nt, but you really know windows95 best. You don't habve
>>> to boot into 95, you can choose windows98 say from system commander, and
>>> windows 98 will boot up in 98 with everything that 95 or 22,000 has, or
>>> which ever you wish to learn on that day. Lets say you get tired of using
>>> 98 and need to get back into 95 to do some serious stuff, so you go back to
>>> system commander, choose 95 and that is it! windows 95 comes up with all
>>> your programs on it. Really cool.
>>> Does anybody use or anybody ever heard of this? I think it would be a
>>> great thing to have. This way you could run 95,98 and 2,000 nt and choose
>>> each one at different times and eqach will boot with all your software.
>>> I would like some feedback if you can on this if anyone has heard of
>this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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