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Number : 2679 Date : 2002-08-18 Author : james sadler Subject : Re: Windows Me Hard Disc to None Removal Hard Disc Backup Size(KB) : 3
--- Kan Yabumoto wrote: > > Bob: > > If you have a single-boot system with Win9X/ME, the > technical > bulletin #10 will work. But, as I said, please > follow > the instruction exactly. You may deviate from the > steps > described in the article if you know what you are > doing. > But, the article's procedure assumes that you follow > the instruction exactly --- if we were to cover all > possible > variations, the article would be 10 times longer. > That > would be counterproductive. It is already quite > wordy. > > The Fdisk step is to ensure that the Master Boot > Record > (MBR) is in good condition. It is necessary only > when > the MBR is in any way corrupted. If the MBR is > intact > from the previous initialization, the MBR steps can > be skipped --- but, the article does not make any > assumption and therefore, you should follow the > step. > > To make the system disk bootable, you must make the > primary DOS partition active. That is the why > you need to run "FDISK /MBR" operation. > > I have no idea how much understanding you have with > the procedure. Therefore, I can't answer to your > question of anything else to know. Let me repeat > what I said: Please follow the XXTB #10 exactly > and you will be OK. > > If you have dual-boot system, that means the > boot sector (not the MBR, but the first sector > of the first partition) is likely contain an > NT-family boot sector which is distinct from > the Win9X system and the article's procedure > does not apply. > > Again, before doing anything, please create a > quick boot diskette using the procedure outlined > in XXTB #32 (for Win 95/98/ME) or XXTB #33 (for > NT/2K/XP). It will at least give you a floppy-based > booting capability when something goes wrong. > You should not only create the quick-boot diskette, > but also test it until you test the booting > procedure. > > I have very little to add to what I wrote in the > article. > > Kan Yabumoto > ========================================================= > > At 2002-08-16 18:47, you wrote: > >Dear Kan > > > >If I do the FDISK procedure - won't I run into > trouble having two > >bootable disks in the system at the same time?? Or > is there > >something else I don't understand?? > > > >Bob > > Perhaps it is so obvious that he may have overlooked it but when you boot go into your Bios and there is a setting that will direct which disk will boot first. Also the jumper settings on your drives need to be correctly set. Your second hard drive should be set up as a secondary master drive rather than as a slave drive. You might actually find it easier to always boot from your floppy drive. There are some short cuts that seem to work for me but I hesitate to mention them as they may not work well for everybody. You might choose to install the OS from scratch on the second drive and then use xxcopy to clone to that drive. It seems to work. I also have done backups to CD by making Winzip copies and then splitting the zip files into chunks and burning them to CDs. It worked for me. Do not try that with anything vital. But for many people it may be fine. Zipping a 4 gigabyte file is an adventure but Winzip seems up to the task. Slice32 will divide that zip file for you so that it will fit on Cds. I've done it already and made a system restore and it worked for me. B4upoo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
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