Mark,
It wasn't quite clear to me from your post whether or not you
installed the DOS partition before or after you installed XP.
If I can add a DOS partition on top of an existing XP OS
using PM, that would be great. Were you able to do this,
or did you install PM first and then install XP and DOS on
top of it?
Thanks,
Mike, W4EF...............
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark S. Adams, P.E." <msadams@acsu.buffalo.edu>
To: <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: [TRLog] XP and DOS Now Play Nicely Together
> Gang,
>
> After a few postings earlier this year trying to get help with running TR
> under XP, and getting no where, I resorted to buying a copy of Partition
> Magic. It lives up to its name.
>
> If you recall, my then new Dell laptop came with XP preinstalled. Numerous
> attempts to delete XP were met with failure. Even my IT guy could not
erase
> it! (I planned on stating with a clean disk and loading DOS and Win98 with
> dual boot.) Since I could not get the keying or rig control to work in XP
I
> went with Partition Magic. So now my hard drive has a 500MB FAT partition
> with DOS, a 2Gig FAT32 patition for Win98SE and a 7Gig NTFS patition for
> XP. All done on the fly with NO DATA LOSS, very cool.
>
> Boot Magic even lets me select the operating system at startup. Booting to
> DOS takes all of about 6 seconds with my 900MHz machine.
>
> So, if you have an XP machine and are having troubles, you might consider
> Partition Magic. Did I mention that it is on sale this week at CompUSA?
>
> Naturally, the usual fine print and disclaimers are included here, yada
> yada....
>
> Oh, the learing curve for the software is a bit steep. You will likely
need
> a few hours to make this work.
>
> 73,
> Mark K2QO
>
> Mark S. Adams, P.E.
> University at Buffalo
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