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I have read everywhere but nowhere is there just a simple explanation for what a Primary Partition is and the reason for it; what it means to set an active partition and what the Extended patition is for? I have the 80gig hd installed and now want to partition it to run win98se and winme like they are two separate drives, so I can switch back and forth...most info deals with windows and linux for the 2 os...Can anyone help me in simple terms, lol?
Please don't take this the wrong way Topaz.
You presumably tried typing "Primary Partition". Ignore me if you have, but if by any chance you haven't this one is probably almost too simple an explanation:
Derek (alias Simple Simon)
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Dealing with the '98/ME dual-boot - which is what part of your post is about.
You cannot have these two OS's on the same drive, nor as two separate hard-drives - without the use of a boot-manager util of some sort. They are essentially two generations of the same '9x family, and the first one in will stop the second from installing in a dual-boot style, but may surrender to it via an 'Upgrade' i.e. the second will replace/upgrade the first.
More on this issue visit:
http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/112163.html
where a couple of useful links are posted that cover how to achieve it. Check out lebeouf's site especially.
Re your first query:
Some of the following links may help explain about partitions?
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html
(may be a bit techy???)
If so then a visit to/browse around:
http://www.pcguide.com
will give tons more info - some very user-friendly:
A search there for
partitions
will produce screeds of info, including this one - which is pretty simply (but very clearly) put:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/structPartitions-c.html
The pcguide.com site is an excellent and current site for all manner of info on drives, partitions, OS constraints, formatting (high, low, mid-level varieties).
Don't know how the chap manages to keep it so current - labour of love?
HTH?
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True you cannot BOOT into two different operating systems without a boot manager. But before I would say you cannot HAVE two different operating systems, I would read the following:
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'Most folks' would probably regard having more than one OS on a system as meaning being able to successfully install each, 'and' able to choose to boot to any one of them?
re the link:
Novel approach; it still requires the use of an add-in util (PQ's Drive Image) to do achieve it. Almost a fudged boot-manager arrangement?
Go about it in the right manner and you can probably have several installed OS on a system. However you will be able to boot to one only, without some assistance/intervention via an add-in util (e.g. PM/System Commander, or various freebies) or a built-in boot-manager (e.g NT family), or a little applied creativity to allow a boot choice (e.g. batch file); or Drive Image in the arrangement you point to...
Incidentally I have a drive that has NT/'98 on it (dual-boot - separate primaries, all partitions fat16), with an earlier copy of '95c (dup'd over via that '95c installation) to a logical-drive. The dual-boot was established later ('95c upgraded to '98SE, and then the second primary created for NT... I can run the ('95c) utils and installed apps. from a '98 boot; i.e boot to '98, then via '98 Explorer run the '95c util/apps. The copy of '95c was made as direct copy via Explorer (in effect a back-up) in case of problems with the C: version, caused by a novice user whilst I was away. It allowed another useable installation to be available in an emergency.
This arrangement is by no means a dual-boot in the true sense, but it does allow some of the features - albeit via one bootable OS?
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DRM That is what I thought, lol. I have been offline a few days tracking down a problem...I do want to be able to boot into any so I could play with whichever os I wanted and try programs on differant os' to see which one works the best...Oh well, it sounds like what I really need is about 3 computers...and I don't see that happening, lol. Thank-you again
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Hello everyone! I really am not sure how I managed it, but I got the new hard drive divided into 3 lettered drives...which is a start. They are formatted and scandisked and now I am going to learn what I can do with them, lol. Thank you all.
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