egm2@jps.net wrote: > > On 23 Jul, RUSSELL SATTER wrote: > | I am real tired of Windows 98 and would give the new way a try. Do I > | have to start with a new hard drive, or what? > | > | Russ Satter > | > | > No, if you have four gigs or more you can have good installations of > both. You will need to have your Win98 software discs as you will have > to reinstall it after repartitioning your hard drive. So, you'll also > want to back up every important file on your system first. I > understand tools like Partition Magic can repartition your hard drive > without wiping everything out, but I wouldn't want to bank on it! >
<insert partition magic plug:partition magic is extremely reliable software. used it hundreds of times!> One thing I'd watch out for with pmagic is changing the file system type (fat<->fat32) on the partition that you have partition magic running from. In 3.02 anyway it corrupted itself, although everything else was fine. I just had to reinstall pmagic. |cheshire|
