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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:46:44 PST7
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: System Cmdr. & eCs

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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:13:25 PST7, Sandy Shapiro wrote:

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>>Thanks for your report, Sandy. This is at least some good anecdotal
>>evidence, and saves me a foray into the noisegroups. I'm wondering just
>>what your experimental setup consisted of (H/D and boot options), how
>>long you ran it this way with SC, and how hard you drove it.
>
>Hi Jordon,
>

The name is JordAn, NOT JordOn.

>I set up an old K6-2 computer with two drives: 10 gig and 4 gig.
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>The 10 gig is set up as:
>Boot Manager - 7.8 meg - Primary
>ECS - 4 gig - hpfs - Primary
>Win 98 (command line only -- these are the files from the Win 98 Startup
>floppy) - 3 Gig - Fat 32 - Primary Win XP - 2.5 gig - Fat 32 - Logical
>(The Win 98 partition is where I keep SC plus store my Drive Images
>(backups)).
>

Are you saying you have Win XP on a primary or a logical partition? It's not clear.

>
>One problem I remember was when I resized the Fat 32 partition to make
>room for Win XP. Both fat 32 partitions were then totally inaccessible. I
>had to boot into eCs (I think maybe from floppies), invoke LVM and, using
>Physical View, Create two new volumes - one for each of the fat 32
>partitions. I then set boot manager "active" and everything was back to
>normal.
>

Are you also saying you ran Partition Magic before installing Win XP? If so, what
version?

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