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Install Suse on XP partition
I have installed XP on C: I have two accounts set up, Admin and Family I cant seem to work out how to keep the logical drives d: and e: on the extended partition private/not shared , ie i dont want them to be available/visible to people using the "family" account. I have tried putting a folder on d: & e: and making

Local mail folders
Then, how would I make all programs and both OS's default to the new single My Documents folder on it's own partition? Would it be best to make ALL partitions FAT32, or could I make the XP partition NTFS? Since I see no reason that Me should have to read the XP partition at any time, I don't know why that

ME & XP
People have been able to shrink XP on Mandrake 9.1, not sure on 9.0 There have been post about the "all data would be lost" msg and sure enough, it did what it indicated. Look around. try clicking the tutorial folder and index.html You need a swap partition. Make it 2x your memory up to 512meg. If I were you,

% of hard disk for system restore
You need to put boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com on the vista partition also. Boot into vista, go to the XP partition and find these files (make sure you uncheck 'hide protected operating system files' under folder options). Copy these files to the vista partition. They will need to be in the root directory of the

Pertitions
I purchased a new XP pro box earlier this year, and the disk space taken up was about 500meg. Even now, leaving off the MS Visual Studio and MS Office folders, my XP primary partition is only about 2 gig, and I've got dotnet installed! 500 meg is not small, but then I didn't ask for a stripped load.

Access denied TO XP-partition folders from Vista on dual-boot ...
What should i do, so that i can boot into that Windows XP on partition 2, without losing my important files? I highly appreciate all who view this problem and try to help, thank you. You should be able to see the needed files on partition 2. If not, use Folder Options> View to show hidden files and folders.

I'm considering setting up a dual-boot of Me and XP...
Is 4 gig enough for XP plus Office and a few apps? Probably, if you avoid the default use of My Documents and other such folders for data storage. On another NG someone said he found 5GB more comfortable. I'm using a 2GB partition for W2K, and I'm finding it _very_ cramped - have had to install several apps on the

Moving documents and settings folder
I eventually managed to get into the machine by using a Win ME setup disk, and discovered that the partition that I specified for XP installation was empty, that XP had overwritten the ME partition, and that all file and folder names were non-ASCII.. The only way out that I found was to FDISK and start again.

System Volume Information folder
You can then leave it booting via the ME partition, and simply remove the windows folder and any items from Program Files, and other folders that you do not use, keeping only ntldr boot.ini ntdetect.com Or you can boot the XP CD and use the Recovery feature - fixboot - to set up initial boot direct to the XP

Apple now builds the most Universal PC on the Planet
You can simply remove the WINNT folder for the Windows 2000 install, and any other folders on that drive that you don't need, to free up space. 3rd party program such as BootIt Next Generation or Partition magic, to resize the old Win2K partition and make it considerably smaller, then enlarge the XP partition.

System Restore
I think that your answer applies when running Windows XP Professional with "simple file sharing" disabled, Erol. In that case, it should let Tom access the Windows folder. He could also explicitly share the Windows folder. If Tom has Windows XP Home Edition, there's no way to do what he wants if the XP partition

Two down to One?
I went onto my XP partition (where the sound works) and got all drivers for my Sound, video and game controllers and placed them in G:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers and when i went onto add hardware and selected the Unknown device and pointed the Find driver box to G:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers it checks the folder and

Hard drive partitioning question
Btw, why is your windows folder called windows.000? It may confuse weaker applications. When I configured my system I had some problems installing the systems parallell, Win98SE installation tends to erase and format all existing known partitions. After one mistake I hid the XP partition (which Win98 wouldn't be

XP Pro doesn't boot after W2K install in 2nd partition
Mac,Croatia Assuming you've installed XP first, on your primary partition... even by booting over to Vista you cannot simply delete or reformat that partition... your boot files would reside there. Of course you can delete most of your XP folders while booted to Vista.

OS Partition
My frame rates are certainly the same as before I compressed all the bitmap folders. Will post again if I hit any problems.. Martin I am curious, as to how this continues to perform for you as well. I doubt we would want to use compression with Fat32, although not sure why anyone would still be running fat32 - if

How do i change the location of the 'temp' folder?
I am using XP Home w/SP2. The XP partition is NTFS. I also have a 10 GB partition formatted FAT32 that I use mainly for disk images & some backups. I noticed a hidden folder on this drive called "System Volume Information" and when I opened it, there was a single folder called "Catalog.wci" (about 40+ megs.

MVP help?
When I imported using the FAST wizard, I spent hours cleaning out duplicate files, For example XP linked to the original "My Documents" folder, but when I imported I had another "My Documents" folder on the XP partition which contained all the same files. I've been meaning to talk to Gary about that, thanks for the

FOLDER FED UP
David carpooldu...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp configuration_manage "Pete" <l...@hotpop.com> wrote in news:O0ve4TGdDHA.2436 @TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl: I have a 6 GB partition that's used almost exclusively by windows XP and it keeps running out of space. Windows folder uses about 1.9 GB and other folders use

Mandrake and XP partition
I have Netscape 6.1 installed on the ME partition and 6.2 on the XP partition. I need help on moving the local mail folders to the partition with XP, I can not find the files and if I could, I do not know were to place them on the XP partition. HELP Mark This is a Feedback group for the Netscape beta test internet

MUltiboot Vista / XP
They happen once and XP seems to glide right through most of these partition changes without any bother. I recently resized and slid my XP partition on my hard disk and XP noticed, but it didn't cause any problem. (5) SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION FOLDERS Just for completeness, there is also the System Volume