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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2832)	10/9/1998 9:33:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) of 14778

Shouldn't be a problem. I use Drive image all the time with NT. using a Jaz Disk as the KOT Device. Is the Jaz drive SCSI? Is it in the boot sequence? For example does it work like booting from a floppy? If there is a bootable disc in the Jaz drive the boot starts from the OS on the Jaz drive? Yes the Jaz is SCSI. I don't boot of it although I certainly could. I just boot off a floppy and restore an image from it. I don't mirror the program disk. I make compressed images as files that I can restore in less than 10 minutes with this setup. I have a SCSI MO drive but do not have confidence using it as a KOT drive. When the harddrive fails does the external function independently? Can you have Partiton Magic and Drive Image resident on the external and then do repairs on the harddrives? I have always found externals to be a little more finicky than harddrives. the jaz functions independently of everything. you certainly could install PM and DI on it and make it bootable to restore images. Others wanting to do this can make thier KOT parition bootable and install PM and DI there and use this to store images rather than mirrors. Depends on what you want. I prefer the 10 min wait and more space capacity for backup images rather than a instantly bootable copy of my primary C. Hope this makes sense. I have my SCSI setup to boot off of CDR. I would have to change both System BIOS and SCSI BIOS settings to boot a SCSI HD. If the CDR were ID 1 and the SCSI harddrive were ID 2 and the system is set to boot SCSI and there is a disc in the CDR it would boot CDR? Given the same setup without a disk in the CDR wouldn't it boot SCSI harddrive? With system bios set to A, C, SCSI and CDR = ID 1 and SCSI harddrive ID 2, wouldn't you only have to change the system bios to A, SCSI, C and remove a CDR disc to boot SCSI harddrive? Dunno, never tried it. *From an end user point of view I agree the boot manager is less confusing to use once set up. I certainly do not want someone else messing with my bios.* agreed. I seems a little scary having novice PC users starting making bios mods like this. sounds like an invatition for trouble. Sean

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