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Da Rock writes:

>  Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions.
>  
>  1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk?

	Yes.  Can't remember the last time I used anything else.

>  2) Does using dedicated mode increase the space available to use?
>  Partitioning normally takes up space so a HDD loses about 10% of
>  usable space doesn't it, so the space used by partitioning is can
>  now be used as filespace.

	Not really; certainly not in the scale of state of the market
drives.


				Robert Huff