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To: Spots who wrote (7471)5/14/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Spots

my only remaining idea is that partition 2 is too high
on the drive.

Partition (1) is 2 gig and Partition (2) is an exact copy so its 2 gig also.

Do you not have an NT setup (which was supposed to be
the backup, right?) bootable from IDE2? One that
you know will actually boot, I mean. Try putting
that one in the boot.ini file on IDE1. At least if
there's a problem you know it isn't from the bios.

With an rdisk(1) nto booted fine from IDE 1. So no Bios problem, at least.

This is the boot.ini I'm attempting to use for the backup NT dual boot. Just wanted you to see it in case there's a mistake I'm not seeing.

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"

Its looking like I can only boot to first partitions on a disk. Fussy Fussy eh... The fact that Partition 2 is not active has been ruled out as a consideration, right?

Let me ask you this, Spots. You said that you had your backup OS on the same disk as your primary and could chose it instead of your primary during bootup. So how does your disk configuration differ from mine to allow that to be possible? Are you using separate partitions for your primary and backup?

If all else fails and I am actually limited to first partitions, my only option would be to replace the boot partition on the scsi with this backup of C:. But thats a different drive.

Clarence
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