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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (7327)	4/28/1999 4:17:00 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

ZP and Clarence: >>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<< That's exactly right. But don't forget that the destination drive for the recovered files has to be a separate disk. >>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?<< Now you've got me wondering if I have my information straight. I thought they told me that the software writes to the HDD for future identification, but maybe that's actually what I INFERRED. Since they claim they never write to the disk, it is probably a "hard-drive signature" that they write to the floppy. They make sure in the documentation that you know that the floppy has to be write-enabled. Sorry for the confusion. wily

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (7327)	4/28/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP Doesn't LF work from a floppy boot? I couldn't get the demo (Wily'S copy) TO boot from its floppy. That's the only reason I consider a FAT partition to boot from. Maybe the manual will provide more info. I expect my LF to arrive today. 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. Understood...I'm confused whether LF boots from its floppy which I agree makes sense or runs the floppy booted from a FAT partition. As I said, Wily's demo wouldn't boot its floppy for me. 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? You're quite right...didn't think of that. I'll do it that way instead if LF retail product floppy still won't boot. 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. As Spots indicated a while back, a phone call to sales would be alot. faster. They really are neurotic about licensing and protecting themselves. Clarence