RJT> TW> IF tyhe CD was set up to do an automatic partitioning without
RJT> TW> telling you that would not help I don't think.

RJT> TW> But doing Test Runs on a spare drive sounds like the way to go. ---

RJT>I don't recall what the CD does,  it's the standard 98 cd.  I used to use '
RJT>all the time,  building systems,  but that was 5-6 years ago...

 I set up a Win98SE system using a Generic OEM CD and don't recal lit
 doing any partitioning and Formatting at all. YOU had to manualy set
 up the hard drive usoing the EBD.
Only one time did I ever use a "Recovery Disk " version and it was a
custom one set up the install Win95 on some Compaq Deskpro 486/66
machines. But even that one need the Hard Drive to be prepaired manualy
before the OS install.

Will be interesting to read the report of your test results.
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