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Partitioning Hard Drive + 1024 cylinder

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by sandeman59

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I have a 30Ghz hard drive and wish to partition it into 3 primary partitions and load 3 different operating systems. The first partition will be Win98, second: Win 2000, third Linux. The only problem is that everything I read about the 1024 cylinderis that an operating system will not boot past this point. That leaves me with a lot of wated space and very small partitions. How can I load 3 different operating systems? I am using Partition magic.

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by techkid

There's software called VMware that will let you load a number of operating systems onto one machine and even have them all running at the same time for test lab purposes, provided you have enough RAM and other resources

by maxwell edison

You won't have any wasted space. With Partition Magic you will be able to create three 10GB partitions (or divided however you like). You have a new and fresh hard drive, so it should be quite easy. Partition Magic won't really let you make a mistake. Simply follow the on screen instructions.

You might review some articles on creating multiple partitions and/or loading multiple operating systems.

Here are some links to some informative atricles:

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,73826,00.asp

http://www.alamopc.org/multios.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/dual_booting_and_file_system_compatibility.htm

Good luck,

Maxwell

by mphoffar

The problem here will be Linux, not so much 98 and 2000. You'll probobly want something like boot magic to create your boot menu, but you should also be able to go with the linux install first, and then use LILO to control all three.

The otherway to go about it would be to use Partition magic and make one of your partitions not able to see the others.

Good luck to you

Mark

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