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> 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. First, my suggestionis that you first install bootmanager ( it's installed as a primary partition ) in the beginning of you harddrive. You can then install the primary partitions ( those for OS/ and win 95 ) at the end of the harddrive. Finaly you create the logical partition in the free space that you have left on the drive. I only see one problem with your partitioning scheme. Boot manager willl only allow you to boot from partitions that are less than 512 Mb. As I understand at least one of your partitions will be bigger than that, so you might want to rethink the way you want to partition. I also believe that FAT will allow you to format the parts of the disk that you are using. I have successfully done this myself with PC-DOS 6.3. For your information, there is a driver for OS/2 that will allow it to read FAT32, so you might want to get a hold of it. If you have any more questions about this, feel free to send me a mail. CU -- LArs Evensen, Overordnet TillitsValgt (OTV) ved FIM, NTNU E.B.Schieldrops Vei 11-16 E-mail : larsev@fm.unit.no 7033 Trondheim WWW : http://www.fm.unit.no/~larsev/ Norway Phone : + 47 - 73 88 89 01