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From: "Michal H. Tyc" <mht AT bttr-software DOT de>
Organization: BTTR Software
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:26:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: Fix...; FAT32 access
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:19:19 -0400 (EDT), Paul O. BARTLETT wrote:

> However, on my old machine I found a technique that worked well for
> me.  I used Partition Magic to create a primary partition at the
> "front" of the disk.  Then I created an extended partition in the
> middle and moved Windows 98 to the back.  In the extended partition I
> put one logical partition.  I formatted the first primary partition and
> put DR-DOS 7.03 on it.  I formatted the logical partition in the middle
> as FAT16.  Both DR-DOS and Win98 could see the "middle" partition, so I
> used it for passing files back and forth.  I just took the care that
> from Win98 I only used 8.3 filenames on the common partition.  It
> worked very well for me.  (I did not have a long filename diriver in
> DR-DOS.)

Oh, yes, a "middle" partition that can be accessed by both systems
works very well (I tried it before), but only as long as you have
much free space on your disk and full freedom in partitioning it.
And while replacing hard disk with bigger one is easy and quite
cheap in a desktop machine, in a notebook it's not.

Michal