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

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7592)	5/24/1999 1:36:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

First, what's a youngster like you doing up at this time of night? >>Are you refering to the open file problem? Yes, partly. But more than that, even if you can copy an open file physically, logically you leave yourself open to integrity problems. To copy an open file successfully, either you must control the activity on the file (or know for sure what it is) or you must enlist the OS's cooperation. That's rather hard to overcome. >>Your saying its not possible to copy files off of partitions from two separate drives (one scsi one eide) onto another third drive and run them from there? And boot them from there if the files make up an OS? I'm saying good luck to you. I don't have a clue how one might go about it in the normal course of Windows apps. You would have to arrange for everybody to look in all the right places for every component. The right places used to be on two partitions (SCSI/IDE doesn't matter here) and now they're on one, with maybe one or the other of the original partitions' drive letters, or maybe neither. So, now whatcha gonna do? Solve that problem, and your dream is realized. Conceptualize it and you're toast. However, I know what I'M gonna do. I'm gonna sashay off to bed. These old bones am gettin' a might weary. Besides, Dave just wore me (and my credit card) out at Buy.com ... <gg>