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Re: NT - 98 DUEL BOOT

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From: Garry McMinds
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 00:00
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You need a boot partiition that NT can read to have a dual boot - NT doesn't
recognize FAT32 - You'll need to convert your C: parttion to FAT16

Larry Seymour wrote in message ...
>I have an 8gb drive in 2 partitions. I'm running win98 with fat32.  Is
there
>away to install NT4 on my other partition and duel boot.
>
>My problem is that NT doesn't reconize the win32 fat and tries to call D
>drive (a fat 16 partition) C drive.  When asking what partition to install
>it has -- in the drive letter for my win98 drive which is C drive and for D
>drive it says C:, but that doesn't work because it says something about an
>invalid partition or something very close to that (sorry I can'tr remember
>exactly)
>
>You can e-mail me at larry.seymour@cgy.valmet.com
>
>thanks
>larry
>
>
>
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Date: 1999/08/03
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