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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (7442)5/12/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: Spots  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
>>Does the secondary NT boot, the one Clarence wants to install..the
alternate NT boot that you referred to in your machines..have to go in
a second partition? or can it go in a second folder on the C drive?

First I apologize for not getting back. Sorry, too much
$%^%^^&* w**k. Apologize also for the four-letter words
(e.g., w**k).

The secondary NT for this purpose can go anywhere. It assumes
no hardware failures. You COULD put it on a second drive
to protect against certain types of hardware and software
failures, but IMO that would be a lot of trouble for minuscule
return.

HOWEVER, there's no bar to having it on another drive, nor
any particular downside that I can see, so you might opt
to do that for a number of reasons. You do get a slight
marginal extra protection. FWIW, both my primary and backup
NTs are on the same physical drive. This may raise a flag
for others <g>.

I know that's not quite what you asked. As for another
directory in the same partition versus another partition,
I have one comment: The only advantage of another partition
that I know about is that you can keep the same name for
the NT partition, which you can't if it's on the same partition.
I have not had success booting a cloned NT from a different
directory name, though you're supposed to be able to do that.
Whether this is something stupid I've done or a more general
problem I have not been able to figure out. I haven't spent
a heck of a lot of time on it, though.

Spots
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