I guess the network can't see it because it's hidden ....

[Felecha]

Home network, 4 PC's on a Linksys router. My daughter's box has just been partitioned into two primary partitions, with the second one given its own separate 98se, so she can do video editing on that partition with NOTHING ELSE on it except Windows. Strong advice to do so by several video friends. So, using Partition Magic, I did just that. Installed the OS, and of course you can only have one active partition, so that one is hidden. I use Boot Magic to make it easy to boot to, but that doesn't affect the "hidden" status. I want to be able to use my network to allow her to store edited files on my second hard drive, which is visible to the network, so I set up the NIC on the new partition on hers, and it can access the internet OK, but Network Neighborhood says the local network is not available. And looking the other way, from my machine I can see the active partition on hers, but not the hidden VIDEO partition. I have to conclude that the hidden status is the problem. I know that's a duh, but I hope to find a way to get network access to and from the VIDEO partition without having to go into Partition Magic every time and reset the active/hidden status.

I've got it shared correctly, as far as I know. Lots of the details are really not clear to me, I had help setting it up, and have forgot a fair amount of what my friend explained to me at the time.

Any help??

 

[jcmkk]

Why did you dual boot with win98 anyway? It doesn't sound like you have the dual boot set up right. You shouldn't have to make any partitions hidden. I think you do have to install Win98 first though. You should use Fdisk to make the partitions. Create the first "primary" partition for win98, then create an extended partition for winXP. Install 98, then pop in the winXP disk and select fresh install (I don't quite remeber what the option is called. It is the other option you get when it asks if you want to upgrade.) Then you can use WinXp's boot manager. Oh, I just had an idea. Your winXP partition doesn't happen to be NTFS does it? If it does, you wont be able to see it with windows 98.

 

[Felecha]

Here's the story. My daughter took a course last summer in video filmmaking and editing at a summer program. Loved it, looks like a really big thing for her life, not just home videos of her friends. We got her a digital video camera for Christmas (Sony PC110). She has a computer of her own in her room.

The way it was explained to me by a friend who's big into video and video editing is that anyone serious about it (i.e. spends lots of time and $$ on it) has a computer dedicated to the task. He has several himself. NOTHING on them except Windows and the editing software. NOTHING. He says it can be an enormous job for a computer to handle and a pristine environment is really worth the trouble to set up. His crashes several times a year from the demands he puts on it. Says anyone on the forums he chats on who learns that you didn't set up a clean environment to work in won't bother to talk to you, like "Hey, don't come to us with problems if you don't take the trouble to set up right". He was really serious about it. I was impressed. Wouldn't have thought of it myself.

Anyway.

Since I didn't want to buy a whole new computer for my daughter to use just for this, he said it would be satisfactory if she just partitioned say 25 or 30 GB of her 40GB hard drive, format it and clean install 98 (he uses 98, says it's fine). Then you have pretty much the equivalent of a separate computer to run on. So that's what I did and why, although it seems odd, I know, to have two primaries BOTH with 98. I have several partitions on my own machind, all under one 98.

As for not having to have it hidden, as far as I can tell, in Partition Magic I can't find a way to make both active. The idea as I understand it is that only one primary can be active.

 

[jcmkk]

That setup makes to sense to me. The only thing that installing windows 98 on two different partitions accomplished was keeping her digital video away from the rest of her stuff. It would be the exact same thing as making a 30GB partition for just video, and using the other 10GB for windows/other stuff. It would actually be better that way since you wouldn't have windows on the same partition as your video fragmenting up the partition. I'm not big into digital video so I can't positively tell you what is best, but that setup doesn't seem optimum to me. I'm guessing that you have to hide one partition because windows 98 wont let you set up two different coppies of itself on the same drive. I don't really know where I got winXp out of the deal. I guess I just imagined that I saw it in your post. If you want to go the dual partition route, I would suggest that you use as NT based OS for your video partition (win2k or XP). I personally like 2k. I think one of the biggest things to give you good performance while editing is lots of ram. She should have at least 256MB, 512MB would be nice, and 768MB would be perfect.