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to: LINDA PROULX
from: MIKE RUSKAI
date: 1999-11-11 05:45:00
subject: Re: Get Going

Some senseless babbling from Linda Proulx to Will Honea
on 11-10-99  13:05 about Re: Get Going...

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP> -=> Will Honea wrote to Linda Proulx <=-
 
 WH> Sorry, Linda, but at most one primary partition per physical disk can
 WH> be seen AS A DISK VOLUME by DOS, W9x, NT, OS/2, or a compliant PC
 WH> BIOS.

 LP> Well, none of my partitions are logical extensions.  All are primaries
 LP> & DOS sees them all.  It works, at least in DOS. But only one is
 LP> bootable. 

Without some kludge to DOS, that's simply not possible.

DOS will see one and only one primary partition per physical drive.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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