Disklavier

Greetings,

I have many programs that do not work on XP and others that work
badly. I have both of my main computers set up with dual boot systems,
XP and Win 98se. I think this is the best combination for doing just
about anything that one needs today. I don't know of any reason to use
win 95 although there might be.

The main reason for this letter is to help save some torture for
others wanting to install a dual boot system. I did it the hard way
and it was a lot of work. If you install xp over an existing OS, you
have the option of using xp's own boot manager but not if you have xp
installed first. You can read all of the information on the web and
spend hours fiddling and maybe do it or maybe not.

Partition magic will let you do it very easily but only if you have
version 8. I had an old copy of version 7 and tried it and it was a
very big job because of all sorts of conflicts between where the boot
manager has to be and what sorts of partitions are allowed to coexist
etc etc. Version 8 lets you do it easily because the boot manager can
be installed on a greater variety of partition types.

It was very surprising to me that Power Quest did not make this very
clear on their web site. There are only a few differences between 7
and 8 but this one is critical. It makes PM useful for exactly what
people would want it for, to ba able to reinstall win 98 after
discovering all the things that don't work once you have xp installed
and all of your apps installed and everything configured and then you
are told you have to uninstall it all so you can put 98 back in first.


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