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06-11-2003, 03:58 PM
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|  OS upgrade and partitions Hello again, I am currently running Win98SE. i have made an extended logical partition (using partition magic) which has some of my files and stuff. this is primarily so that if anything happens to the primary partition this logical partiton should *hopefully* not be affected.  therefore can i assume that if i load windows 2000 over windows 98 - the extended partiton will not become overwritten? would i have any conflicting problems if i format the win2k installation ntfs and leave the extended partition fat32? also will there be any problems with my GRUB boot manager in recognising win2k? i suppose the answers are fairly straightforward for most of you Tech Gurus  but i just need a bit of reassurance. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thx. Don Fudleone btw, is there a way of not having to log in all the time on win2k boot? the sytem will primarily only have one user.
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06-11-2003, 04:19 PM
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06-11-2003, 08:16 PM
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| Have you already upgraded? Because it will say something to the effect of "Always assume that this user is logged on." Check that, put in your password and such, and there ya go...
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06-11-2003, 08:20 PM
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06-12-2003, 09:13 AM
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I have had XP running wonderfully on a Pentium 233Mhz with 64 Mb RAM 
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06-12-2003, 08:53 PM
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I will agree w/ Ecniv about XP being fast enough if you disable the themes, and use a classic logon. You could even disable themes altogether if you wanted to.
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06-13-2003, 03:09 AM
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| well if you install win2k over 98 it shouldn't do jack unless you tell it to format the harddrive, I prefer keeping Fat32 even though ive got winxp home (because of networking with PC's that have 98) if your hard drive is separated to 2 virtual hard drives all the files should still be there after installing 2k but to be sure you might want to back the secondary hard drive files up on the primary hard drive
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