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Number   :  9096
Date     :  2004-11-01
Author   :  Burris Millstone
Subject  :  Re: Why change jumpers to test newly cloned drive?
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--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Anderson" 
wrote:
> From: "burris millstone"  wrote Sunday, October 31,
> 2004 9:12 AM
> Subject: [xxcopy] Re: Why change jumpers to test newly cloned drive?
> 
> > --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Garry Deane" 
wrote:
> > >
> > > If your BIOS supports it, you can swap which drive to boot
> > > from in the BIOS. This saves having to open the case to
> > > physically swap the drives/cables.
> > > Garry
> 
> >
> > This question seems to surface periodically.
> >
> > As I have indicated in the past, I XXClone from my C drive to
each of
> > my other two D&F drives. Kan's program creates for me a multiple
boot
> > scenario and when starting up, I get a choice of which drive I
want to
> > boot. The way I have it set is that I have 10 seconds to choose
which
> > drive will boot, or it defaults to C.
> > I don't understand the need for switching cables and pins.
> > This is with XPPro.
> >
> > burris
> ======================================
> 
> Burris,
> 
> Supposedly at least one of your D and F partitions is on a hard
drive that
> is separate from the hard drive that contains partition C, and would
be your
> backup hard drive that you would use if your hard drive (with C)
crashed.
> 
> The process that you are currently using relies upon the boot.ini
file
> contained in your C partition. If the hard drive that contains
your C
> partition crashes then you will be not be able to access that
boot.ini file
> and would be relying upon some other potentially non-existent or
> non-functioning boot.ini file (on your backup hard drive or on a
floppy)
> that you would not have tested, based on the process description
that you've
> provided.
> 
> It is not a major issue if you did not have a backup of your
boot.ini file
> since you could always cobble something together and even use trial
and
> error to determine what partition count you need in a new boot.ini
file, but
> what you would not have is a simple case of simply replacing your
crashed
> hard drive with your backup drive and being able to immediately
boot up.
> 
> Dan

Dan....

I keep a mirror of my multiple BOOT.INI on all three drives.

I also do have Kan's boot floppy disk that his program creates.

I suppose in the event of a disaster, I could easily enough switch
cables, but if I remember, the few times I really screwed up my
C(system drive), I was able to boot to the D drive and copy back. Of
course the HDD naming changed in the process, but I can recognize my 3
drives by the capacity.
By the way, I do only have one partition on each of the drives. I have
never seen an express purpose in partitioning a drive.

burris 



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