>Do yourself a favor - the -smallest- drive at my local Staples last week was a 6.8GB Maxtor, for under $160. Drop that in and start with a nice, fresh disk.
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>That makes it easy to switch back and forth between NT and 9x; just swap drives - it could be as simple as just swapping a cable!

So your saying don't worry about a backup device... just go get an extra hard drive, leave my existing hard drive alone, and do my NT install on the fresh new drive? Then if I have problems (and my middle name is murphy so something is bound to go wrong) I can just switch back to my old drive and still run Win95 just like I've been doing?