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arly2380
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I am willing to setup a dual boot on my PC. But my PC has only one C drive which is 20 GB. Windows 2k Pro and other programs have taken up 4GB currently. If i want to install RedHat 9 along with win2k in my PC, should i buy the parition magic 8 for $40(on sale) to do the partitioning, or a new 30GB hard drive for $50? How safe is to use Partition Magic 8? ( i heard that this program is pretty good, but not 100% sure) Thanks in advance.
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Woodstock
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Buy the hard disk. I would also suggest you buy a pair of drive trays. Put windows disk in one tray. Put linux disk in another. Plug in disk with OS of choice to boot.
hth
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SweaTz
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... get the drive.
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arly2380
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Interesting since I haven't had DOS in many years but haven't had any problems running PM - but then I have fairly recent PM not some ancient copy.
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arly2380
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How about downloading presizer from www.zeleps.com and saving the $?
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Etotogeya
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it allows you to slide one drive out for another. sort of like swapping. some people prefer this over duel-booting. me, i prefer duel-booting, as i dont want to have to fiddle with hardware.
... parted or use Linux fdisk.
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Woodstock
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... that is VERY strange indeed. even if you're using an os such as win2k, and alter the partitions, it HAS TO BOOT to real-mode, it's the only way it can have control of the system.
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biddy
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:> :> Interesting since I haven't had DOS in many years but :> haven't had any problems running PM - but then I have :> fairly recent PM not some ancient copy.
: ... that is VERY strange indeed. even if you're using an os such : as win2k, and alter the partitions, it HAS TO BOOT to real-mode, : it's the only way it can have control of the system.
There _is no_ DOS on a Win2K system so it couldn't to DOS if it wanted to. Not sure what 'real mode' is.
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johngnova
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.... in fact PM does run in real-mode, before nt boots into protected mode. you know, PM will say, the system must be restarted, then you see the text-mode version run before win2k boots.
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Steven_Osteon
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No. It only boots in real-mode, as any x86 operating system does. But then it loads a protected-mode DOS extender to avoid the real-mode BIOS
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