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Number   :  6714
Date     :  2004-01-02
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  XXCLONE and partition counts
Size(KB) :  1


I've always been somewhat confused by the partition# that XXCLONE uses when
defining the source and destination partitions. I was not really affected
before because XXCLONE previously did not alter my boot.ini files.
Previously my XP logical partition was not on the same hard drive as my
boot.ini file but now they are both on the master boot hard drive, and my
boot.ini file is automatically revised when I run xxclone.

The boot.ini file seems to use the following rules:
a) the first hard drive is drive 0 and the second is drive 1.
b) partition # references consider all partitions, primary and logical,
regardless of whether they are hidden.

I have the following problems with the xxclone numbering system.
1. I typically have three primary partitions (two are W98 and one contains
the XP boot.ini file). There will always be one active primary partition
and two hidden primary partitions. XXCLONE's partition-numbering system
always seems to be too low by a count of two because it seems to not take
into account my two hidden primary partitions.
2. I'm not really sure about this next item, but I think XXCLONE sometimes
seems to treat the first hard drive as #1 rather than #0 (and I think it
considers the second hard drive to be #2) but this is less troublesome than
the partition #ing because currently my source and destination partitions
are on the same hard drive and so xxclone is not altering the drive numbers
when I run xxclone.

Thanks,

Dan



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