Most people probably wouldn't be using a 3rd party boot manager. Not all
application installs use the same set of installation files (especially
across hybrid and 32 bit systems). As I said I'm glad it worked for you but
I would never recommend this to anyone and with respect to this thread the
concept doesn't apply.

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"Ron Martell" wrote:
| Why not?
|
| Each application was installed 3 times - once for each operating
| system, and the registry entries etc were in the operating system
| partition, not the application programs.
|
| In order to ensure that there were no drive letter conflicts I used a
| 3rd party boot mananger (Boot Magic) and configured it so that the
| non-booting operating system partitions were hidden and therefore no
| matter which O/S I booted the operating system was always on drive C:,
| the application programs were on drive D:, and my data files were
| always on drive E:. Worked like a charm, until I upgraded to a larger
| hard drive and decided that I no longer needed to have Windows Me or
| Windows 98 always available.
|
| Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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