From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 20:23:23 EST
If Lorita is in the air, you'll need an umbrella..
James, send me the finished text and i'll add that to thinkpads.com.. :-)
Bill Morrow
http://thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. E. Maugham" <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
To: "Bill Morrow" <penzance_at_gate.net>; <Yves.Soussi_at_penuries.com>;
<thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Cc: "Richard Chalk" <rchalk_at_speakeasy.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 6:23 PM
Subject: RE: TP600X - 650Mhz -2645-9fg - recovery cd WIN98
> Dear Lorita, ;-)
>
> Bill Morrow [mailto:penzance_at_gate.net] wrote:
>
> > wondering out loud, here, since the subject is current..
> > is there a dual boot manager that can be applied to a HDD that will make
an
> > empty second partition with, perhaps, a DOS command.com a "C:" drive..
if
> > so, why not do a restore from a recovery CD to a seperate HDD, then
(using
> > ghost or drive copy or the like) copy it to the aforementioned "C:"
> > partition..
> > thus you wind up with a dual booting factory preload on each bootable
> > partition..??
>
> Richard Chalk (rchalk_at_speakeasy.org) wrote that PartitionMagic had this
> capability and, after letting the hamster turn the wheel a few more times,
I've
> come to the conclusion that he's right!
>
> Richard wrote: "Third, it is possible to run two different operating
systems
> starting with recovery CDs. You do need a program like Partition Magic,
which
> will allow you to create more than one Primary Partition, and select which
is
> active. You can then install the recovery disk, using the "leave existing
> partitions and format C only" option, then change active partitions and do
the
> same thing with the second CD. Then you activate Boot Magic, which comes
with
> Partition Magic, to select which you want to start."
>
> I'm going to try this later tonight or tomorrow with PM 6.0, both on a
single
> drive and on dual drives, just to see what happens.
>
> WRT the dual boot topic we've been kicking around on the Forum, I've
already
> setup W2K from a recovery CD and loaded a retail copy of W2K to dual
partitions
> on a single drive _and_ to dual 6.4GB drives with no problem. W2K even
loaded
> the boot manager when I installed to the D: drive or partition.
>
> I was just getting ready to post my results to the Forum when I read
Richard's
> post. Using his method would be a much more elegant way to resolve Joel's
dual
> boot problem, so I'll hold off posting until I get a chance to experiment.
>
> > if any of this sounds foolish, then its not me, but one of the birds
eating
> > this keyboard..! :-)
>
> Don't worry Lorita, we all know who the real birdbrain is on your end!
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
> Ducking and running.................
>
>
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