From: earlcp@idirect.com   
      
   Edmund  :   
      
   > I have a HDisk with 2 partitions, on one of them BeOS R5 Pro.   
   > No partition has a C: or D: name, I formatted the second   
   > partition FAT32 for windows ( I know, but for some programs   
   >  I need it ).   
   > Problem : when I try to install windows it complains about   
   > the D: disk containing errors and it refuse to install.   
   > There is no D: disk, so windows must see the BeOS partition   
   > as a D: disk with errors on it.   
   > I really like to install win on this drive, so that I have   
   > both BeoS and Win on one disk and can use a second disk as   
   > backup.   
   > Any solutions for it?   
      
   Windows hates not MSDOS partitions.  More than once I forgot and tried to   
   install it, each time it wiped BeOS's boot info.   
      
   The best way I found is to install windows first, then BeOS.   
      
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