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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (70186)	5/13/2010 1:39:54 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 110655

If the drive fails, the image is useless. True. It a very rare event btw, most repair guys never see a broken HD motor but other things can happen. I use my PC a lot so I need back up. "just in case". My off site enclosures are almost full up and I don't want to compact the data further. The are for archive use only now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Multiple HD drives. The C:\ drive can be a bit of a pain if you are making clones of drives etc. It can get complex quickly, and I don't like that, even though I am happy with messing around with the registry and tinkering around inside the case. I like simple straightforward solutions. I read lots of sites talking about how to deal with the C:/drive, you can put a switch on the case, disable it etc, but non of those solutions are really suitable and risks are attached. My solution when I have multiple drives is just leave all the drive assignments on auto (the OS selects them) and change the order which the drives are selected in BIOS. That is easy enough. The first drive that is selected by BIOS becomes the system disc, and the partition selected by the boot.ini file (on the HD selected) becomes the "boot partition". If the system partition and boot partition are the same the Disk Manager just calls it the "System" partition. This what my cloned HD's look like when I have them both on and the original internal boots up. 3.bp.blogspot.com This is what they look like when I change the drives around in BIOS and the ESATA HD boots up as the system drive. 4.bp.blogspot.com I don't intend to update the two OS on the clone drive, in fact a future project might be just to have updated bare OS's on them. They kick in when I need to boot up on the cloned drive and then I can do an image restore if I need to. Normally the clone is switched off and it all looks normal with just one drive. C what I mean? OK I have had far to much time on my hands recently -g-

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