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RE: Exe files(For Tuncaydin6)

• Posted by Gerardo <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Mar 07, 2001
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tacitus,

----- Original Message -----
From: tacitus <indorlaw at zdnetonebox.com>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: RE: Exe files(For Tuncaydin6)


> you have to be mindful of paths. the OS on the first drive will see the
> second partition or drive as d:, whereas the second OS will see its same
> partition as c:. (or at least, you hope so, otherwise its autoexec.bat
> and config.sys will not be properly read). that works on my system ok
> because i have win3.11 on the second drive and it can't see the first
> FAT32 drive anyway. but i'm not sure if it recognises its own drive as
> c: because the first partition is invisible to it or because the dos OS
> labels its own drive first regardless.
>
> you can see this could cause problems if you put win95B or win98 on the
> second drive and they see their own drive as d: (and fail to load
> properly) or if you want to share files between both OS's that include
> absolute path references.
>
> have i confused things sufficiently now?
>
> tacitus

Not really. Let me confuse them a little farther. If you are running two
versions of Windows, they don't really need to be in different partitions:
they can both reside in c:, as long as they live in different directories.
However, you can only do this if the second, newer version, is dual-enabled
(i.e. Win95+) and at install time you told it to keep the previous version.

As for the remaining partitions, Partition Magic (and maybe other utilities
too, I don't know) will let you assign them any letter you like.

Gerardo