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RE: Exe files(For Tuncaydin6)

• Posted by tacitus <indorlaw at zdnetonebox.com> Mar 07, 2001
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its not entirely true that windows can see any dos partition. win3.1 and 
early versions of win95 can't see FAT32 partitions, only FAT16. but if 
you've got win98 or win95B, they can see either FAT16 or FAT32.

however, your bootmanager (eg partition magic) may by default label a 
partition hidden to other bootable partitions to avoid a clash of 
command.com files at boot time. you can change this in partition magic, 
usually without problems, at least if the second partition is beyond the 
1024 cylinder of the first drive.

cheers
tacitus

Irv Mullins wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerardo <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM>
> To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:28 PM
> Subject: RE: Exe files(For Tuncaydin6)
> 
> 
> > Irv,
> >
> > I believe Windows will see every DOS partition in the system, as long as
> one
> > is the main one and all others are created as logical units within an
> > extended DOS partition.
> 
> If I have two drives, both with Windows, so that I can boot from either 
> (via
> CMOS
> settings) will Windows be able to use both drives? I haven't tried this.
> 
> > As for Linux, there is a way to see its partitions from Windows, but 
> > it's
> > not cheap (around $300). You need a Virtual Machine. There's a very good 
> > >
> one at http://www.vmware.com
> 
> For far less than $300 (read: free) I got an old 486, without monitor, 
> which
> runs Samba and NFS (SuSE Linux), so its files are usable by any pc on my
> home.net.
> Any file I think I might want Windows to be able to use, I store there. 
> This
> works fine,
> and gives me some protection against losing stuff whenWindows crashes.
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
> 
>