Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:33:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 & partitioning
Sounds like the best way to go at this point is to start with W98 on drive 1, and do a fresh installation of W2K on drive 0. But I do want to have a thinned down copy of W2K on the system too. How did you go about accomplishing that one Philip? I don't quite see how you got around the conflicts with GUIds written to disk, as well as registry conflicts etc. when you set up 2 copies of W2K. I guess that's what I need to know before going further. >> I'm guessing that you run that from a command prompt >> from within W2K, right? If I booted the system >> >> from a > No! you should do that from a pure booted-into-DOS > prompt - according to Microsoft's Knowledge base, > that is. But! you can also do it from a Win2K > Recovery Console, it may be something like FIXMBR > or so. Perhaps a better option because it won't > wipe the >8GB partitions. Yes... From W2K's onlone Help: ------------------------------------- Fixboot Writes a new partition boot sector onto the system partition. Fixmbr Repairs the master boot record of the partition boot sector. ------------------------------------- With the warning: ------------------------------------- If an invalid or nonstandard partition table signature is detected, you will be prompted whether you want to continue. If you are not having problems accessing your drives, you should not continue. Writing a new master boot record to your system partition could damage your partition tables and cause your partitions to become inaccessible. ------------------------------------- > (I'm so used to > OS/2's FDISK and Linux cfdisk that I forgot that > Win9x FDISK has the 8 GB barrier.) Is it a limitation of FDISK, or a system's BIOS, or both? I've been putting my Lib's 40GB HDD in my desktop to partition after the 8GB boundry with PM. If I booted the drive on the desktop from a W98 boot floppy and ran FDISK /MBR from the floppy, would FDISK still not be able to see the entire drive, and go ahead and create a corrupted MBR? > <about PM> >> ..if you want to do >> any partitioning with Partition Magic at all from >> within Windows on a >8GB HDD, you >have< to install >> EZ-Drive. Otherwise the PM partition GUI will run >> right off the right side of the screen, and I assume >> PM won't partition correctly. > Yes but Win2K's disk management combines EZ-drive + > (most of) PM. So.... I can that see by browsing the menus in W2K's "Disk Managment". Guess it doesn't create partitions tho'. >....<snip> >> Is there no way of installing W98 onto another >> partition >after< installing W2K, and then getting >> W2K to dual-boot both? I've put in so many hours >> setting >(Didn't you say it's a hobby?) Heh... Yeah... But at all to many hair raising points it seems one God(s) has(have) plagued me with. 8-0 > Must be possible. Should be something like this: > - Use bootpart (www.winimage.com) to save the Win2K > boot sector from C: > - Install Win98 on another partition then where > you've put Win2K > - Restore boot sector on C: > - Add a stanza to boot.ini for Win98 (check in your > current boot.iniwhat it looks like) > > The vital thing is to save the Win2K boot sector. Hmmm... > ...<snip> >> Or if I have to reinstall W2K, how about restoring a >> W98 image to drive 1, and then do a fresh install of >> W2K on drive 0? > That would be the easiest. Win2K will fix the boot > menu for you while installing. Okay... Ther main question now is how to go about this, and be able to have a 2nd thinnned down copy of W2K co-exist with the one on drive 0? I'll brace myself for your reply on that one. ;-P Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
