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Date:	Fri, 3 May 2002 07:59:39 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Partitioning Question

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At the risk of sounding like a busted record, if you want to run
multiple operating systems, get System Commander. It does for booting
what PM does for partitioning, takes it to a different level.

Ray

Tony Butka wrote:
>
>
> I'm doing an installation for Jordan on an all SCSI system. HD0 is an 18 Gb IBM & HD1
> is a 9 Gb IBM. The partitioning setup is a little different, but Jordan wants to be able to
> use the same drive lettering as was on the old system. It is:
>
> Disk1 - 17,500 Mb
>
> Letter Name Type Size
> C DOS Fat16 400
> C MAINT HPFS 502
> - Boot Manager 7.8
> -- Extended 16590
> D Dos Apps Fat16 502
> E Warp4 HPFS 800
> F TestApps Fat16 502
> G WarpApps HPFS 1506
> H FPArchive HPFS 502
> I Win32Apps FAT 2039
> J Win2K NTFS 2003
> K LandingZone HPFS 2039
> L ECS HPFS 2000
> M Storage HPFS 2000
> N Win2K NTFS 2698
>
> Anyhow, after fooling around with various Partition Magics, Boot disks, & such, I wind up
> getting problems in the C:Maint partition which was a clean Warp4 install. No access to
> Boot Manager (other than delete it w/no usable option to recreate the partition), no
> access to adding the other drives to Boot Manager or for that matter setting any of them
> installable. Or nothin'.
>
> Second symptom is that the GUI Drives Folder shows all of the drives as folders
> instead of drives, and shows the NTFS drives as well as te OS2 ones. Also, the NTFS
> partitions show as hard drive (unaccessable, but show) icons even tho the rest of the
> partitions still show as folders.
>
> Help would be appreciated :-)
>
> Tony

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