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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7579)	5/23/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>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. Yes, exactly. You see your backup boot path every time you boot up. If you boot from the bios, you risk the OS misinterpreting the mixed signals it gets on drive lettering, because it get's one letter through int 13h (bios disk access), where the boot partition is always "C", so to speak, and another letter from accessing the physical disk configurations on the controller. As a matter of fact, I have found NT to be very good at sorting out the drive letters recently. This is in contrast to earlier service packs where I would routinely get a BSOD if I changed my hard drive configuration because my NT boot partition is such that it's "natural" drive letter changes if the number of disks or active primary partitions on the system changes. That was a naive error from my first NT install. One I vowed not to repeat; hence my limboing through croquet hoops to get NT on the first active primary partitions of the "C" drive (always there) and the backup on the "D" drive (also always there if the "C" drive is there). Since service pack 3, I have not had this particular problem. In fact, at one point I cloned the "C" NT to what you saw as the "G" partition in my configuration, then physically recabled the drives so the "G" partition was the primary IDE master, i.e., the natural "C" drive, booted it, and it came up labeled "G". Mind you, this was on a drive which had never itself been booted before (in fact, it was the newly formatted 20GB drive). The NT on it had been cloned from the "C" partition. Nevertheless, it came up as "G". Not only that, the original "C" partition (which I had swapped into the secondary IDE master position where "G" was before) came up as "C". I was simultaneously impressed and pissed off. Not according to my master plan <G>. Fortunately, remembering Dan's comments, I relabled the drives the way I wanted them (C is C, the way God intended), ignored NT's complaints, rebooted, and all was happy. All but me <g>. Spots