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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:23:42 -0800
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
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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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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