[ct-user] ct 9.81 and DVP/Win2000

[J. Edward (Ed) Muns]

Each partition has its own drive letter.  From DOS, you can't read the
Windows 2000 partition, but there is little reason to do so anyway.
However, from Windows 2000 you can read the FAT 16 DOS partition just fine.
So, you run CT in the DOS partition, creating your post-contest files, then
do everything else from Windows 2000, including emailing the log file,
printing summaries, archiving files, etc.

I've been doing this for years ... DOS partition and Windows partition on
each computer.  It is easy to switch between the partitions and completely
avoids all the discussion/experiences of running the DOS version of CT under
the various versions of Windows.

73,
Ed - W0YK

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> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:06 AM
> To: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu
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> Subject: Re: [ct-user] ct 9.81 and DVP/Win2000
>
>
> Jim,
>
> I've been wanting to do this type of partition stuff for even older
> WINDOWS operating system.
>
> A question showing my ignorance.  Just how does one get the contest
> file from the DOS partition to the WIN2K partition for uploading to
> the contest sponsor? Floppy disk would work but most machines don't
> come with floppy disks anymore. Can WIN2K, WINME, WINXP et al read
> files in the DOS partition?  Does one have to format the DOS partition
> in any special way?
>
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>
> Jim Reisert wrote:
> >
> > Hi Henry,
> >
> > You want to create a bootable DOS partition, and install CT
> there.  When your PC starts up, you will be given a choice of
> booting the Win2K partition or the DOS partition.  For CT, you
> want to boot the DOS partition.  For all intents and purposes, it
> looks like a DOS computer at this point, all CT functions should
> work as expected.
> >
> > I don't remember if Win2K comes with a utility to do this.  You
> might look into Partition Magic software for creating the new
> bootable partition.
> >
> > 73 - Jim AD1C
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