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homey · 01-16-2003, 07:40 PM

Well I tried a lot of different methods. I started out with Ranish Partition Manager which allows 32 primary partitions. That's pretty slick on a small scale. Big problem there is that you have to write the fat table down on paper

and keep track of it yourself. Also, you can only have 4 visible partitions at a time.

With the Partition Boot Manager that I used, it completely hides all partitions but the one that you are working with. That means the systems can go anyplace on the hard drive. The one exception is older systems which have to be within the 1024 cylinder limit. That is they need to be located in the first 7.5GB of a big hard drive.

Also, this program fooled Win95,98 and Me into setting up on the C: partition because all of the other stuff was hidden and NON-DOS.

One really slick thing is that you can remove any operating system with out disturbing any of the other systems.

01-16-2003, 07:40 PM	#12
homey Member (7 bit) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 116	Well I tried a lot of different methods. I started out with Ranish Partition Manager which allows 32 primary partitions. That's pretty slick on a small scale. Big problem there is that you have to write the fat table down on paper and keep track of it yourself. Also, you can only have 4 visible partitions at a time. With the Partition Boot Manager that I used, it completely hides all partitions but the one that you are working with. That means the systems can go anyplace on the hard drive. The one exception is older systems which have to be within the 1024 cylinder limit. That is they need to be located in the first 7.5GB of a big hard drive. Also, this program fooled Win95,98 and Me into setting up on the C: partition because all of the other stuff was hidden and NON-DOS. One really slick thing is that you can remove any operating system with out disturbing any of the other systems.