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From: "Alain Mouette" <cosmodat AT uninet DOT com DOT br>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DR-DOS and Windows Co-existing?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:48:14 -0300
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

>Alain wrote:
>>To switch operating systems, I go to fdisk (whichever DOS is running) and
>>select the active partition. CAUTION: if your bios has lba but your drive
>is chs
>>don't use the current version of FreeFDisk (have a check if all this works
>before
>>you do too many instalations.
>
>>Bernie wrote:
>I've done something simular - except that I hide the DOS partitions from
>Windows so it can't mess them up (and that my two HDs total 15G - 2G for
>Windows the rest for DOS). There's a program that comes with Symantecs
>Ghost called gdisk that can do this - if you search for gdisk you should be
>able to find an older version for download (instead of downloading the
>entire trial package on almost 15MB file just to get gdisk).


I really don't want to hide that partition from windows because that is how
I prepare it for whatever I do with it. Have you had any problems or heard
of some (from a reliable person) of Windows corrupting partitions?

Note to new-comers: my first partition is completly contained before track 1024
and the second bootable one (Win) starts before that too!

Alain