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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7317)	4/27/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) of 14778

You guys were right about LF not working in an NTFS system. PowerQuest says the next release will. Both my working boot partitions are NTFS but I do have that hidden FAT w98/nt partition on C: Can I unhide and make that partition the active boot partition for C: in order for LF to work? I do not think that is necessary. Doesn't LF work from a floppy boot? I have never used it but that makes the most sense to me. My guess is you boot L&F from a floppy boot...it looks at your harddrives and finds files? Then you tell it which FAT partition to restore the files to. In your case you would restore the files to the newly formatted FAT partition on the ROMO. Unhiding and making active the clone at the end of the NT disk should work..at least I can not think of a reason why it would not. You would have to hide the NT partition as you can not have two active partitions on the same physical disk in a Win9x environment. Why mess with the primary NT install if a floppy boot does not work? Wouldn't it make more sense to copy the clone to one of the ROMOs and then boot the ROMO? Wily's comment about the software protection scheme bothers me. I do not like the idea of writing secret info to the harddrive. Which harddrive is it going to write this secret information to? ALL of them? What if you reformat the drive with the secret information? Or..if it works from a floppy boot..does it write secret information to the floppy? Harddrive signature? Which one? I would consider emailing PQ and indicating to them you have a machine with five harddrives and asking how their software protection SCHEME will work in your machine. Zeuspaul

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