On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 17:14:10 +0100 Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW, I always used to have a DOS boot partition (C:) and put Windows > on D: back in the XP days. It was useful to have the ability to > dual-boot DOS for BIOS reflashing and occasionally for emergency data > recovery. I made the partition big enough to hold XP's pagefile, as > this was slightly quicker than having it on NTFS, it reduced > fragmentation on the Windows system drive, and if you needed the space > in DOS you can just delete PAGEFILE.SYS — Windows will silently > recreate it next boot.
Seems to me as a great way to do it, especially in those days where you often just had one drive to work with. -- _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
