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May 29, 2002 at 02:26 AM
ldavid

partitioning a hard drive for 3OSes

by ldavid . Updated 24 years, 2 months ago

Here’s the deal. I have a 20G hard drive and I need to load 3 OSes on it, but NT4.0 keeps hosing anything I try by saying, the partition is to big or I have to make 2G partitions all the around, which defeats the purpose of utilize all 20Gs on the HD. I already have a 3G hard drive that has Win98 on it and I can get by with just putting NT and Win2k on the 20G as a slave if I will still be able to dual boot to all 3 OSes having 2 hard
drives. Is this possible and if so, how?
I’ve been successful with installing Win98 and Win2k on the same drive, because they both read FAT32. What gets me, is how to partition the HD. I’ve tried both FATs, I’ve tried installing 98
first then NT and visa versa, I’ve tried only partitioning/formating thec drive and letting NT do the rest and I’ve tried partitioning/formating the whole HD i.e. extended and logical to no avail.

Can anyone possible shed some light on this?…

Thnx!

Lori David
FAST Software
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