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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (4300)	12/16/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

How is he gonna boot DOS of a D Drive??? If Jon configures Clarence's machine the way I understand it he will boot Win95 from the FAT16 partition on the second harddrive. He will use the bios to select the second drive. This FAT16/Win95/DOS boot will be a KOT device. He can install Partition Magic, Drive Image, NTFSDOS and any other useful utilities. He will access REAL DOS from the KOT boot by selecting the shut down and restart in msdos mode. The Win95/DOS drive letter will be C when he boots the second drive. ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ My current thinking on a KOT drive has evolved from thread conversations and my own use of the concept. Trying to maintain a full working clone of a primary OS installation seems unnecessary..or at least not practical. It would work well if one were to maintain a small primary OS installation. My primary OS installation is growing and space considerations will make it difficult to maintain a full working clone. Clarence's setup makes sense to me. The KOT drive concept redefined with utility in mind. One still maintains the ability to boot and use their machine for most types of failures. The KOT would be preconfigured to see all necessary and useful hardware including external media. One would use the KOT boot to fix NT, flash bios or restore Drive Image files to the primary drive. Looking forward to progress reports on your new machine. Have you tried booting an IDE CDROM for the NT install? Zeuspaul