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Hi, When I got my Thinkpad it was formatted with a *single* partition but could run Win 3.11 or OS/2 - I know that OS/2 permits itself to be installed on a DOS partition, which is what was being exploited here. I presume the latest release of OS/2 also permits this. You mention that you can't format FAT beyond 1GByte, so why not format the *first* partition (i.e. nowhere near 1G) as your shared data partition, using the OS/2 boot manager or something like LILO to boot from the appropriate partition subsequently. My ignorance of OS/2 may mean I'm just spouting garbage, but maybe this'll give you some ideas anyway. cheers, Andrew. ---------- From: Mark M. Ingerman[SMTP:ingerman@chelsea.ios.com] Sent: Samstag, 25. Januar 1997 14:04 To: Thinkpad Forum Subject: Boot Manager - win95 and os/2 I know this is more like an operating system question and not a thinpad question, but people on this list seem very knowledgable in these areas - so here it goes. I have a 2.1 Gb drive on my thinkpad. I would like to have both OS/2 and Win95 on the same drive with boot manager. Here is my problem. I wnat three partitions. The first the win95 boot partition. The second, the OS/2 boot partition. And the third a shared partiion ( would be D for both boots ). I have several software packages which run on both platforms and I want the share data. The problem is this: The third drive will be the last 350 Mb ( or so ) of the physical disk. I can't format using FAT because it won't work in any sectors past the first 1Gb on a physical disk. If I format using HPFS ( OS/2's format ), Win95 can't read it. If I format using Win95's Fat32, I don't think that the OS/2 partition can read it. Any suggestions? Mark M. Ingerman Creative Software Solutions, Inc. ingerman@cs2.com (508) 394-4266