From: dwilli10@cox.net   
      
   Does anyone know whether I can use a disk manager to move the starting   
   position of my drive C: XP system up to a higher position on the first drive   
   to make room for installation of Open Server below Windows?   
      
   Background:  For many years I ran a dual OS System with DOS and SCO Open   
   Server Unix, and later with various versions of Windows and SCO Open Server.   
      
   I changed the active partition using a Novell DOS boot diskette with a   
   compatible fdisk to change the active partition, or the Open Server fdisk to   
   change the active partition from within Unix prior to shut down.  Also, if   
   the active partition is Unix I could, at the boot: prompt, use a Unix   
   command "bootos" and boot into DOS or Windows.   
      
   This worked fine until I got to Windows XP Pro which just took up too much   
   space, given the requirement that Open Server must boot from within the   
   first 1024 tracks.  I had to remove Open Server at that point.   
      
   Now someone has suggested that I can use the disk manager product I have, in   
   this case Acronis Disk Director, to free up perhaps a Gb or so at the start   
   of the first drive and install Open Server there, thus meeting the 1024   
   track requirement since Unix would be on the start of that first drive.   
      
   I'm looking for someone to verify that XP Pro will reliably boot from a   
   location starting somewhere up in the first drive instead of being the first   
   operating system on the drive.   
      
   Until I got into XP the first drive contained C:. Open Server, and G:  Not   
   really neat but it worked fine.  Now the layout is C: and G: and Open Server   
   is not on the system, except for some data and program files that are   
   sitting safely on a couple of SCSI drives, which I can re-link if I get Open   
   Server running again.   
      
   I apologize for making this question so long but I want to be sure I lay out   
   all the facts.  Also, in a couple of days I will lose access to the Usenet,   
   courtesy of Cox, which is discontinuing it.   
      
   Thanks,   
      
   DAW   
      
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