Hi All...
I need some advice about partitioning my hard drive. Since we got our new
Dell computer, with Windows XP Home Edition, I have not been able to get the
keying and radio interface for NA to work. NA was also locking up all the time
but I got that fixed by unchecking the options for Radio1 and Keyer....
After researching the alternatives I went out and bought a copy of Partition
Magic 8.0. I have my HD partitioned with Windows XP home as NTFS
as the primary and then I have another partition that I am trying to setup for
MS DOS 6.22. This partition is setup as FAT32 and a Primary (so you can boot
from it) but after more research I am wondering if it needs to be FAT ??? From
what I understand MS DOS 6.22 should be FAT16 but the Partition Magic doesn't
give you this choice when you make a new partition.
Anyway, I went to the MS website and downloaded a file called MS DOS 6.22
setup. I think this is the same setup you get if you have the disks ??? I
copied this setup.exe file to my new partition and ran it and it installed a
bunch of files on my new partition. I then add this partition to Boot Magic.
When I restart my computer and Boot Magic give me the choice of which partition
to boot from I choose the partition I setup with MS-DOS 6.22. For some reason it
will not boot from this partition. I am thinking I need a autoexec.bat and
config.sys because it doesn't look like the MS DOS 6.22 setup created those
files. I'm not sure what I need to put in those files??? Any ideas on what I
am doing wrong ???
I also tried to install Windows 98 on the partition. The disk I have is the
upgrade CD and I don't think it has all the files on it ??? I made a Windows 98
boot disk from my old computer and got into the setup by booting from the CD.
It seems some of the files I need are missing becuase it takes an error. My
computer originally came with Windows 95 but it only came with a Compaq system
restore and Windows 95 Companion CD. I tried the restore CD be it seems to only
work with a Compaq computer because it also takes an error. Any help would be
appreciated !!!
Jeff KU8E
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