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Number : 6755 Date : 2004-01-06 Author : Dan Anderson Subject : Re: Boot drive problem (xxclone) Size(KB) : 6
Hi Harold, I wasn't sure if you were referring to both items but I've addressed both: 1 - changing colour of the desktop - (doing this from memory right now as I'm in W98 but I think it is the same for XP) Right-click on an empty area of the desktop and select "properties", then under the "appearance" tab either choose a particular colour, or an alternate "scheme". 2 - identifier-icon on the desktop - Again right-click on an empty area of the desktop and select "new" and then, say, select "text document". That will create an icon on the desktop which you can rename as something like "XP-Harold2 -- Jan 5" (to rename, right click on the current name and select "rename"). The different colour in particular helps to identify if you have booted into the wrong partition. If you later rerun xxclone, any distinct settings on the destination partition will be over-written and you would need to remember to re-set the settings when you first boot into the revised destination partition. I would guess that running xxcopy (if you run it against the windows directories) would also affect the desktop settings. Dan ==================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: Harold 38 To: Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [xxcopy] Boot drive problem (xxclone) Dan, Could you give me a clue how you do this? Have wanted to do this for a long time!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- When I create an XP partition for backup or some alternate use, I change > the colour of the desktop (and/or add an identifier-icon on the desktop) so > that I know immediately which partition I have booted into. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Dan Anderson wrote: > Ron, another quick tip so that you don't inadvertently have the same thing > happen again (it can be an easy thing to do with a slip of the keyboard). > When I create an XP partition for backup or some alternate use, I change > the colour of the desktop (and/or add an identifier-icon on the desktop) so > that I know immediately which partition I have booted into. > > Kan, as a related thought, one thing that you might consider with XXCLONE is > to generate a desktop icon on the destination partition that identifies the > date and time that the xxclone run was made. > > Dan > > ================================== > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Anderson > To: > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:03 PM > Subject: Re: [xxcopy] Boot drive problem (xxclone) > > > Ron, pending a response from others, these are some initial thoughts. > > I guess this happened after you used XXCLONE (from C) to create a bootable > XP partition on F. > > I'm guessing that in all your steps you had not changed which hard drive was > your boot drive (the one containing C) and the C boot.ini file has now been > directing you to boot into F as the default XP partition rather than using > the C windows directory etc. If you open the C boot.ini file with a text > editor you can see how it does that. > > The simple answer might be to go into SETUP when you boot the computer and > change which hard drive is your primary boot drive. Then it will boot into > F but using the F boot.ini file. I expect you would then be able to format > the other hard drive (losing both C and D), but that does not really seem > necessary since you have the alternative of running XXCLONE from F with F as > your source and C as your destination, and for D you have the option of > running xxcopy to update it based on the current contents of G. Whatever > you do, keep an eye on the contents of both C and/or F boot.ini files > (depending which will be on your boot hard drive) so that you can see what > is happening and which is the correct option. > > > Good luck. > > Dan > > > ================================= > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ron Hossack > To: > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:02 AM > Subject: [xxcopy] Boot drive problem > > > I noticed a slight problem created by myself and not sure how to > correct this. System > is XP Pro. > > My HD is divided into to partitions, "C" for windows files and "D" for > everything else. > > After making a complete bootable backup to my drive ("F" for windows > and "G" for > everything else) I never noticed (because I didn't pay attention to > boot selection) that > when starting the machine would always boot from "F". > > But all updates and files dowsnloads were on drive "D" were updated and > the original > Windows on "C" was never updated. So drive "F" (on backup drive) was > updated and > drive "D" on original HD was updated. > > I tried to format "C" so I could use XXCLONE to copy "F" back to drive > "C" but it will not > allow me to. > > Any simple suggestions before I remove this drive and format it > completely or did I totally > confuse everyone? > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Ron Hossack > rhossack@c... > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe eMail to: > Or to post a message, send eMail to > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > xxcopy-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! 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