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A multi-OS system requires more than merely creating several partitions and installing two or more Operating Systems. As mentioned in my previous post, get Partition Magic 8.0 with Boot magic included. If you want to cut costs a bit, get PM 6.0, which should be available cheap now that 8.0 is...

PowerQuest utility Partition Magic will move & resize partitions without losing data. In a few operations, it could change your second disk to have only an extended partition, assuming you have a bit of extra disk space. PM could resize your existing primary to a minimum,allowing space for an...

I recommend Partition Magic 8.0, which includes Boot Magic. I have been using these PowerQuest utilities ro run Muliple OS systems for many years. PM will create, move, and resize almost any type of partition. The resize and move operations can be done without losing data in the partitions...

I have Windows 98SE running on ASUS A7V133 Motherboard with 1000MHz Athlon CPU. I recently replaced three 20GB hard disks with three 40GB Disks. I intend to use the three 20GB disks to replace smaller disks on my second system (used by my girlfriend). When I used my primary system to prepare...

I am having some problems with a partition on one of my hard disks. Scandisk hangs the system up at or near a particular cluster. The manufacturer suggests a destructive fix. I have pretty good backups, but would like to minimize the amount of file restore work. Is there a utility which will...

I have a system with three physical hard disks. I know that a mainframe can have 10 (perhaps more) I/O data transfers being done concurrently. On a PC is it possible for two or more disk data transfers to be done concurrently? Can a data transfer to printer memory take place at the same...

Assuming that your connectors and master/slave jumpers are correct, perhaps you have a problem that plagued me for a few days. After installing special IDE driver from Motherboard CD, I had to change the boot sequence as follows. 1st boot device: Floppy disk 2nd boot device: Disabled (normally...

Thanx for the help. Your advice seems correct. I have not had a recurrence and my systme is running okay. Dinosaur from prehistoric mainframe era Eschew obfuscation! If one hundred million people believe a foolish idea, it is still a foolish idea!

This is a wild guess, but seems pertinent. On many systems, the second PCI slot shares an interrupt with the IDE controller for your disks. If the card in that slot is not designed to share an interrupt, there can be problems. If nothing else, it could slow your hard drives down a bit. Since...

I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I am running Windows 98 and DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.11 on a 1Ghz AMD Athlon processor. My Motherboard has boot virus detection built into the CMOS. Motherboard is ASUS A7V133 Socket A with VIA Apollo KT133A Chipset. A few days ago I started...

I have been amusing myself by running a Multiple OS system. I have just resurrected DOS 6.22, and have discovered that my applications can only use the default Video with 16 colors. Several DOS applications provide a list of advanced display adapters, all of which are for ISA slots. I tried the...

I have a system with three physical disks. The following organization seems like a good idea to me. 1st disk: OS and applications software. 2nd disk: All data files. 3rd disk: OS awap file and backup images for first two. I think the above should minimize head movement, which takes...