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To: Gottfried who wrote (75215)	4/30/2011 12:19:39 PM
From: PMS Witch	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

. . .I restore to an active partition on my second HD . . . You got me thinking -- My laptop has a huge disk, 500G. (Huge for me!) And I don't come anywhere near filling it. I could create a second primary partition and restore my images to it. Then I could mark it as ACTIVE, and re-boot. If it works, I'd be certain my image is OK. There's a catch. Although this would work with XP, with Windows 7, I'd need to update the Boot Configuration Database. Cheers, PW. P.S. I haven't tested this.

To: Gottfried who wrote (75215)	4/30/2011 8:07:45 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

Re I restore to an active partition on my second HD weekly. My primary HD is never touched and I don't need faith :) Sounds like a plan. I use Paragon Manager 8.5 on windows XP to control what goes where. I suppose I could upgrade Paragon to something windows 7 compatible one day but haven't bothered so far. Paragon 8.5 cannot be used on Windows 7 at all, not even in XP mode. Paragon can be run inside windows or outside of it using the boot disk depending on your mood and preference. Here is a picture of the two Hard Disks I have running as I type this. Normally I would have DISK 1 switched off. 3.bp.blogspot.com As you can see, I can Hide/Unhide, make Active/Inactive, Copy a partition, or a whole disk with just a few key strokes. There is a boot Manager wizard, plus a number of utilities including a complete defragmentation program that will defragment the windows OS as well as other files. It works on Linux too. Of course a powerful tool like this can be destructive if you make a mistake, but with a little bit of practise and caution, including making appropriate backup images, it's a useful versatile tool that can deal with anything that is thrown at it. I use caddies for my external hard drives these days. One for SATA drives and one for IDE drives. I use an old IDE Hard Drive to run up Linux, but I haven't had much time to do that recently. At the moment, a third internal fixed SATA drive is used to boot my machine. 1.bp.blogspot.com