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re: removing win 95
Monday, January 22, 2007 at 4:10 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(966 messages posted)
I'd love to tell you that there is a nice freeware/shareware product that will move
stuff around to make partitions and you can trust it. The trouble is, there are
only commercial products. (Another trouble is I am recommending products I haven't
personally used. Keep that in mind.)
A lot of professionals used to swear by Partition Magic but I read the real-life
experiences of a pro who swears at it. He has used it for years and recent versions
have sometimes erased partitions.
So the current star is:
but that is $69.95. Besides a partitions manager it has a comprehensive multiboot
manager which is likely to be overweight for your use. The boot manager that comes
with Linux should do everything. There is also a partition manager in Linux but
I don't have any knowledge about its recent use. I am personally too cowardly to
attempt to do a learning while installing operation.
If you are going to spend $60 as I just sort-of recommended, the smallest, cheapest
hard drive that I could find at my local discounter was an 80GB Western Digital drive
for $60. Unless you have overheating problems just about the only way a computer
can wear out is when the bronze bearing of the hard drive dries up and grinds itself
to powder and jams.
Western Digital supplies its DLG partition program. It works easily enough but it
destroys any data.
So my solution was, get a new hard drive. Use DLG to create an 8GB partition for
Win95. Copy Win95 to that. Load Linux into the other 70GB partition.
(Yes, 70+8 = 80. On a hard drive anyway. Some stuff gets used up as overhead.)
So that's what I perscribe as the most bang for the buck.
On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 6:27 am, driver wrote:
>Yes that is what i want a dual boot system but do i remove windows or partition
and
>then move windows to one partition
>As you have done this i would appreciate any help/advice
>Thanks
>
>
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- re: removing win 95 (driver: Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 6:27 am)
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