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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7000)4/11/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
My main confusion lies in not knowing if these two apps will still execute unattended if the computer is left booted to a drive other than the drive I've installed them (Diskeeper/BE)on.

I believe you are going to have to chose one or the other. You can execute a backup program from any of your boot drives but it will not work properly.

The problem is changing drive letters. You have to configure and execute the backup software from a consistent boot. If you have a folder on the SCSI drive called C:\ta and you want to back up C:\ta and your backup software has been installed on the SCSI drive from a SCSI boot ..the backup software will look for C:\ta and back it up.

If you install and configure the backup software as above but execute it from your primary IDE NT boot it will look for C:\ta and not find it. The C drive is now your primary NT boot drive and the SCSI is F (most likely if you have three IDE drives).

Choose a 'C' drive and install and execute it from the chosen 'C' drive.

Convenience favors either your last evening boot drive or your first AM boot drive.

Also consider that 'clean' system you want to maintain. I have some computers that do not experience 'registry blote'. It is because I do not install and uninstall software. The machines are task specific and are generally quite stable and rarely experience difficulties.

So which drive to install to ?? Beats me!? Gravity tells me the primary NT boot unless there is a good reason to put it somewhere else.

Zeuspaul

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