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- From: ychung@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
- Subject: Re: Dual HD Setup Recommendations
- Message-ID: <C0FxDJ.27F@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <79157@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:20:07 GMT
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- In article <79157@hydra.gatech.EDU> np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:
- >I have recently acquired a 660 Mb ESDI hard drive for a machine at work.
- >This machine currently has a 330 Mb ESDI drive that is about full, mostly
- >with DOS applications. It runs OS/2 and DOS (dual boot), and the 330 HD
- >is formatted for FAT (a single partition). I would like to have all the DOS
- >programs and current/future data files accessible from DOS, yet give OS/2
- >some HPFS space, if that will make it run more efficiently. Some questions:
- >
- >1) How should I best set up the drives so that I can preserve the dual boot
- >option (I need this for running some VCPI programs)?
- >
-
- Since you have two drives why not take advantage of it and use the
- Boot Manager instead? I'm using two hd's and use C: for dos and
- D: for hpfs OS/2 and I think it's much cleaner than the Dual Boot.
-
- >2) Should I format the new drive under OS/2 or DOS? (FDISK?)
- >
-
- You should use OS/2 FDISK and install Boot Manager on the 660Mb hd
- and have dos and files from 330Mb hd in it. Then format the
- 330Mb as hpfs and install OS/2. This will give you the option of
- keeping all dos files in the bigger drive (I assume that you'll have
- more dos files than os/2 files) and yet give OS/2 the added advantage
- of hpfs.
- In my case, I'm very happy about it after installing my second hd and
- setting it as above.
-
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