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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:40:29 -0800
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Running programs from a FAT-32 partition

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I only have one FAT32 partition in common with W2k and eCS as well as a flash
drive or two. The only caveat I have heard of is that in case of a file system
problem you MAY have to run chkdsk from the dark side to fix a problem with a
FAT32 partition.

I would also ask in the FAT32user group on Yahoo.

HTH

J R FOX wrote:
> Heretofore, my experience with the eCS installer has
> been decidedly mixed. (Perhaps they've been steadily
> improving it -- I don't know. But I hope so.) In the
> past, it seemed the simpler and more plain-Vanilla
> your hardware setup, the better were your chances of
> success. And starting with an empty hard drive was
> likely your best bet for not having a problem.
>
> Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised with how well
> things went with RC-4 on this older ThinkPad. Despite
> the presence of a large, existing W2K C: (which I
> shrank with DFSEE to free up space), eCS went on
> smoothly in the first try. The W2K partition happened
> to be FAT-32, if that makes any difference (?).
> Initially, the BM partition was situated between them.
> Neither FAT32.IFS nor NTFS.IFS has *ever* worked for
> me in the past, and I always suspected this might have
> something to do with the alternating arrangement of
> numerous HPFS and NTFS partitions on the desktop hard
> drives, which is a way more complex structure. When I
> could not see anything on C: of this laptop from eCS,
> I thought I should try moving BM to the end of free
> space, and butting up eCS right next to the end of the
> W2K partition. I did this with the latest DFSEE, and
> Presto ! -- now I can see and read files on the FAT-32
> partition. This is a very handy capability I've never
> had before.
>
> This is all prologue to a question. I'm pretty
> confident it will be safe to read stuff that is on the
> FAT-32 partition. But, is it safe to *write* to that
> partition under our FAT-32 driver, or to run any
> programs from there ? Is there any real chance of
> data corruption in so doing ? I have a DOS word
> processor and a number of other DOS programs or
> utilities located there, on the Win side of the fence,
> and it would be convenient not to have to duplicate
> them elsewhere. I defer to your greater experience
> with this.
>
> Right now, it seems unlikely that I would want to run
> any Win-16 programs from there, even if Win-OS/2 was
> up to it.
>
>
> Jordan
>
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Tom Brown, Catherder
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