Re: How: dual-boot with exact partition-clone

Speaking for myself - I hate to recommend to a newbie (or even
myself) that one should "go into the registry" to do anything. I
already have Casper XP, which I find thoroughly satisfactory
for cloning single partitions or entire HDs, and considering
John John's experience and Pegasus's comment about it, I don't
intend to be a beta tester for SelfImage. As for "using XP boot.ini"
I don't know why people keep recommending 3rd-party boot
managers. Perhaps it's because the boot managers can handle
the partition hiding or because they don't want to explain to
newbies the syntax of boot.ini, which means explaining the
meaning of "rdisk()" and how it varies with the Hard Drive
Boot Order.

*TimDaniels*


<michelratipho@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I must be missing something !
Why do you all keep on trying to find some partition hiding and
booting?

Does my explication on cloning and dual-booting not work for you?!
Just altering the HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, cloning with the
freeware "SelfImage" and using the XP BOOT.INI does the trick whith
me....


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