PM>> OS/2 Boot manager needs to be in a partition of it's own. The partition

 PM>> can be at the beginning or the end of the hard disk. When you reformat

 PM>> drive C: remember to use the /S option to copy the system files back. I

 PM>> forgot this once when I was partitioning my hard disk :-(. Luckily I

 PM>> noticed before I started restoring all the files.



 PE> What's wrong with going "sys c:" if you forget the /s ?



My (possibly incorrect) understanding was that you could only use "sys
c:" if you had reserved the space required by IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS
when you formatted the drive (using the /B parameter I think). Maybe this
is only required if you want to do the "sys c:" after putting
data on the drive.



 PM>> If you want any help with the partitioning, give me a call. I have had

 PM>> plenty of experience (too {at}#$^&^% much) partitioning my own drives.



 PE> Just found out, and remembered I'd forgotten, about primary partitions

 PE> and logical drives.  So I'm now planning on having the IDE drive with 1

 PE> meg for boot manager, and 199 meg for FAT (DOS primary partition).



 PE> Then the SCSI drive have 250 meg logical FAT, 500 meg logical HPFS, 250

 PE> meg logical HPFS.



Sounds fine. Lets see you back it up though :-)



Paul



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