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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:21:17 -0700
David Herman
I have a multi boot system which is occasionally called upon to run win98. I've never had a problem on my other operating systems caused by defragmenting win98. There are 4 or 5 win partitions spread about my 2 drives (alongside 6 other bootable operating systems), they were all defragged about 10 days ago w/ no problem.
I also have win4lin but have never had the nerve to run defrag there (no sense pushing my luck) I have not run a recent copy of Win4Lin, but you probably could run defrag on a native FAT or FAT32 partition from Win4Lin, but do not do it on your virtual C: drive, which is a directory in your home directory.
One other potential dual booting issue WRT scandisk and defrag. I have
seen cases where Windows may not fully respect the partition table.
BTW: I run a multi-boot on my desktop system:
1. SuSE 8.2 (newly upgraded)
2. SuSE 8.1
3. Windows ME.
I boot into ME ONLY when I need to talk to the Comcast Customer Service
droids, and that is very rare. They only know direct connect and reboot.
But, I do not run email or surf on that system. My laptops are 100%
Linux.
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Jerry Feldman