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To: Spots who wrote (7575)	5/23/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Spots Naw, show me where (you wrote) I'm personally not so keen on the bios option for my backup OS, simply because I don't trust the OS to make good sense of the drive letters. I'd rather have a standard dual (or multi) boot that I see every time I boot up, such as either NT or the various boot managers provide. (Snip) " That I see everytime I boot up" meant to me a boot option for the backup when booting IDE 1. I tried putting the backup NT in a bootable partition next to the primary C: boot partitiion and was unable to get it to boot. my memory is that I recommended you use the NT on your IDE2 drive as a dual-boot backup for your main NT on IDE1. Didn't I? Yes..you did. I had the impression that recommendation was made because I was unable to create a second boot option for IDE 1. I DID recommend you dual-boot the backup with the primary rather than counting on the bios boot. Ok...now I think I see what your saying. Keep the backup on IDE 2 (D:) but but the reference to it in the IDE 1 boot.ini. I also put a clone of my primary NT in the D partition........... This subject may be of interest, which I will be happy pursue further at another time if anyone wants to talk about it. The idea of a separate up-to date working clone of primary C: is of great interest to me and ZP as well. There has been some discussion of using an app called Second Copy on a daily schedule which simply copys designated files from one place to another at the prescheduled time. One problem I saw was that opened files were skipped. There are other apps such as Bxcopy and Auto Mirror which will also copy open files. But these last apps are real-time which is a problem of another sort. This where we left the idea. I realize your not planning uptodate to mean on a daily basis but whatever the refresh rate is the idea is still the same. Thanks for your recent sysinternal utilities. I'll definitely take a look. If a uttility passes your muster..well that saying something.. Clarence

To: Spots who wrote (7575)	5/23/1999 11:11:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Spots Actually I also put a clone of my primary NT in the D partition. It boots fine too, and has everything as up-to-date as the clone is (and also provides a KOT backup for the primary). BUT there are real caveats to that notion, BECAUSE unless I take extreme care my clone on D of the primary on C will load components of WinNT from the C drive. I know this happens at present, and I even know how to fix it, but maybe I will and maybe I won't, because it's the kind of thing you have to keep fixing every time you install something new in the primary. This subject may be of interest, which I will be happy pursue further at another time if anyone wants to talk about it. Not now, though. Lets definitely talk about this some more in the near future. I'm interested in not cloning C: but making scheduled mirrors of it using something like spursuits.com As usual i have complications. My C: holds TA program folders referencing data on the scsi drive. I think of my primary NT install on C: to also include the partition on the scsi. If I could make one big virtual drive inclusive of IDE 1 and Scsi 0, I would do it. I know thats not possible, but thats how I conceptualize these two drives as a unit. As far as mirroring the two as a pair into D: am I looking at another nitemare as far as management goes? To be continued...