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

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7428)	5/8/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

The question at hand is whether or not to delete the existing OS on the scsi drive if I'm going to be running everything from the OS on the primary ide drive. By deleteing it there would obviously not be a second OS to get out of sync with. By keeping it I could boot directly to the scsi drive if I had to. My two cents. First, I think you are doing the right thing by setting your machine to operate from one boot/os for what you do on a regular basis. There are uses for secondary boots..mowa's game machine concept, KOT, experimentation..why bloat the registry with multiple installs and uninstalls? A trading machine should be kept as clean as possible. I see no reason to delete the OS from the SCSI drive. It functions as an alternative boot if you ever need one. Do you uninstall the TA app from the SCSI drive and then reinstall it to the SCSI drive from the NT IDE boot? That is probably the best approach. If you have considerable effort in the existing SCSI TA install you may want to consider keeping the existing TA install..or at least the data that you have accumulated. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Running the TA app 'from the SCSI drive'? I have a DOS app that runs completely in RAM. That is an ideal situation IMO. The harddrive is only accessed when the program is called up and when project files are called up or saved. When does NT access the harddrive and how often? I do not know. If NT is installed on the IDE drive and TA is 'installed' on the SCSI drive when is the SCSI drive accessed? Maybe the app will run faster. NT may work from the IDE drive and the TA app may access the SCSI drive for data searches? or is the entire TA app called into RAM? only accessing the page file when you have insufficient RAM? Backing up If you have NT installed on the 'C' drive and apps installed on the 'D?" drive. Make Drive Images in pairs...one for the 'C' drive and one for the 'D' drive. My preference is to have 'everything' installed on one drive letter as it simplifies backups. It rarely happens for whatever reasons. Zeuspaul