hard drive partitioning

[dejacky]

sorry, let me rephrase. the os i'm using is Win98se. I don't remember what type of partitions (primary, logical, or extended) i'm using, but I remember PM giving me the option of installing win2kpro on 2 different types of partitions. One type required the os to be installed on reboot or the computer would not boot into any OS-->this is what really gave me a hassle since the cdrom wasn't being detected & it wouldn't go into dos since i was trying to install win2kpro on nothing..so i used a win98se boot disk in hopes of installing win2kpro on the partition, i kept getting some type of vfat init error. any suggestions?

 

[JoPalm]

If you have all your OS on 1st partition and personal files dl's, and programs on the 2nd and you format the OS partition and have a backup of the registry, will the programs still work after you load up the registry on the new OS?