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Number   :  4177
Date     :  2003-03-30
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: neat trick I learned
Size(KB) :  3


 Be very certain that you have good backups
before you run into trouble. There are OSs that will
not yield to FDISK completely. I suggest you get a
copy of AEFDISK.exe and keep it on a floppy. Setting
up dual booting machines isn't a problem. You might
want to try Mandrake 9.0 as it is particularly easy to
install on the same drive as a Windows OS. And if you
get really good at Linux you can open and repair files
on a Windows partition. I have found that keeping a
Linux distro at hand has saved my bacon a few times. I
usually use XP or 98 but there is much to be said from
keeping a Linux distro on tap. Some can even live on a
CD so that your hard drive is out of the picture.
--- bruceinmich  wrote:
> I was playing around with the XXCopy program today
> and I did like I
> said I was going to do. I copied my small amount of
> data from my 80 
> GB "D"
> drive to my 100 GB "C" drive. It only took up 33.4
> GB total and that 
> was
> with almost 15 GB of MP3 files. I used fdisk and
> formatted my "D" 
> drive
> after I finished copying everything to the "C"
> drive. Then I used 
> XXCopy
> to copy "C" to "D". I then pulled my "C" drive out,
> put the "D" drive 
> in as "C",
> booted to my boot disc, and set the partition
> active. Then I ran the
> option "FDISK /MBR" like I read about. (Master Boot
> Record) I re-
> booted
> and it worked perfect, just like it did the last 2
> or 3 times I used
> this program. But this time I took it one step
> futher. I put the "C" 
> drive
> back in, put "D" back to where it was and re-booted.
> Everything came 
> right
> back up just like it was supposed to but here is
> where I made a 
> change.
> I changed the background on my "C" drive and didn't
> copy it to "D". I 
> also
> put an empty folder from my desktop into the recycle
> bin, making these
> changes just to be able to see a difference in the 2
> drives. I then
> re-booted and hit the delete key to enter set up as
> it was counting 
> the
> memory. I went into setup and changed the boot
> sequence, making the
> Maxtor (D drive) boot ahead of the Western Digital
> (C Drive) And sure
> enough, when it booted up, the background was what I
> had on the "D" 
> drive
> and there was nothing in the Recycle Bin. I then
> re-booted again, went
> into set-up and changed everything back. And I'll be
> damned if the
> changes I made to the background and the empty
> folder weren't on the
> system desktop. That tells me I could have two
> different operating
> systems on this system, or at least two different
> desktops to boot to 
> on
> the same PC. This is really, really cool. I could
> make all kinds of
> different changes on one drive and not worry about
> it affecting the
> other drive. Maybe this is what I have read about? A
> dual booting
> machine? I could probably have Windows 95 on one
> drive and 98 on the
> other. Maybe even 98 and XP? Wow, this is really
> cool. Just thought I
> would share this interesting experiment with you.
> I'll need to e-mail
> this to myself as well as to you, because right now
> I'm booted up to 
> my
> "D" drive and when I re-boot to my normal "C" drive,
> which I will be 
> using,
> this e-mail wouldn't be there otherwise. I'm going
> to keep the
> backgrounds different, just in case I screw up and
> I'll know which 
> drive
> it's booted up to. Bruce
> 
> 


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