Re: ntfs, fat32 vista and xp and line wrap

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Avrom Fischer wrote:
> Ps can anyone explain when you call up a pure text
> document in notepad and wordpad when it will line
> wrap and when it will not.
In Notepad, a file opens unwrapped. Click on Edit, then Word Wrap, to
make it wrap. In WordPad, the initial view will also be unwrapped if
it's a plain text doc. Click on View, then Options, then Text, and you
can choose to wrap to margins or to ruler.
> The first or c drive should be ntfs, on which I
> plan to store both xp and win98se unless there
> is a reason that I should not do that.
I don't think W98 can see an NTFS partition. Anyway, you HAVE to have
separate versions of Windows on separate partition. Only way to do it.
So that's two separate partitions.
> It is my understanding that for Dos programs
> and my Xywrite documents and Wordperfect
> 5.1 documents I should use fat32, though I did
> not understand why from reading the archives.
Fat32 uses disk space more efficiently than FAT16. Not really an issue
with a drive that big, but you might run into an app that couldn't
read FAT16; it's pretty ancient. DOS apps run fine on Fat32; I don't
think I have fat16 on anything except my museum-piece Win95 laptop.
> My primary reason for making the other drives
> fat32 is that it is my understanding that if you
> format a drive in fat32 you can change it to
> ntfs but that reverse is not true.
Correct. But also because almost anything (including *nix) can read
and write to Fat32. Not so NTFS.
> Since I expect from past experience to use
> about 10 to 15 gigs of drive c and well under
> 10 gigs on drive d and there is a ton of empty
> drive space left, can you triple boot and if you
> can triple boot should I also put vista on this
> pc and if so should it also go on c. I assume
> it should be on an ntfs drive. I have 4 gigs of
> ram.
Personally I'd wait and get the dual-boot system working first before
thinking about Vista. You can always leave part of your drive
unpartitioned. Then if you try to install another opsys, it will ask
you if you want to put it on the unpartitioned space.
BUT you absolutely, positively MUST have separate partitions for each
opsys. No sharing allowed.
With all that space, you might want to think about something I've been
doing on recent setups. I create one logical drive called SETUP, and
copy to it the Windows CD and the relevant drivers from the driver CD
that comes with the system. That way, if I ever have to reinstall (or
add a Windows component for which it asks for the CD), it's on the
drive, and I don't have to go hunting for it.
Also create logical drives for your swap files: pagefile.sys in XP and
win386.swp in 98 (thanks to Robert for alerting us to this trick,
which has really obviated a lot of those hung shutdowns to which W98SE
is prone).
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx