Hi,

My new athlon 700 system is on the way so I'm in a planning mode.

This what I have: one IBM 22GXP 22GB, one WD 6.4 cavier, and one dma33
cdrom

What I want: NT on one HD and 98 on the other. NT will be used the most; 98
for games, whatever. I intend to use the fat32 driver in NT and the NTFS
driver in 98 so I can see both disks in either os.

This is what I think I need to do

1)put the wd on ide channel 0 as master and partition into c:(1GB fat16,
primary,active) and d: (5.4GB fat32, extended dos)

install 98 on d:, add NTFS support.

2) put the ibm on ide 1 as master and leave as one partition e:(22GB
NTFS,extended dos)

install NT on e: add fat32 support

Is this correct?  Both of these drives are ata66 and the K7M mb supports
ata66 so I will want to use it.  Should I make the cd the slave on ide 0
since the wd & the cd will not be used that much?  Or is it unwise to mix
33 & 66 devices?  Any comments/recommendations/pointers to boot.ini faq's
are welcome.

TIA

Bruce

First, no OS can access NTFS except NT itself.
Second, NT 4.0 does not support FAT32.
Third, you can have both system run on the same system using FAT 16.
But for FAT 16, you can't have a partition which is larger than 2 GB.
You'd better use the third-party partitioning software, e.g.
PartitionMagic.
They are UDMA 66 but not ATA66.

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Worng! You can install drivers to read NTFS under various OS like Dos,
Win95/98, etc.(Read the original posting slowly and carefully)

Wrong! MS provides drivers to read Fat32 under WinNT. (Read the original
posting slowly and carefully)

Right! But a waste of diskspace and performance.

PM can't create FAT16 partitions larger than 2 GB

Jörg