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23569 2001-11-04 05:24:00 I currently have ME on my hard drive but am unable to load a DOS bookkeeping program which is not year 2000 compliant. Therefore I would like to partition my hard drive and load Win 95 for the DOS program on a small part of the hard drive while keeping ME on the major part of the hard drive for other programs I have loaded. Guest (0)
23570 2001-11-04 05:43:00 Firstly I wouldnt advise using software you know not to work with Y2K issues, it will cause a great deal of headaches.

As for partitioning, you will most likely want to use PartionMagic, as partitioning with FDisk is both tedious, as well as destructive to the data on the drive, PartitionMagic however lets you repartition a segment of your drive without having to format the rest.
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23571 2001-11-04 07:57:00 Go here and read the article.
www.powerquest.com
Also read the problems Page.
What you are suggesting isn't really a good idea. It can cause all sorts of problems.
If you do go ahead with it BACK UP
Good luck.
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23572 2001-11-04 09:51:00 If it is a DOS based program then you will have to stick with FAT 16, in which case never make a partition bigger than 1 Gig, Otherwise had Hard drive will disappear. Guest (0)
23573 2001-11-05 00:37:00 If it's a dos program why bother installing win95 when you could make a partition for dos.


JM
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