Re: 2 Hard Drives... 2 Perfect Bootable Copies...

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From: R. McCarty (PcEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:58:31 GMT

Even with an exact image & set Active, you'll have issues with trying to
boot from the D:\ copy. For you to test it, you'll have to "Hide" the C:
drive. D: is an exact image, but it's contents all point/use C:. With both
C: & D: seen by BIOS and enumerated by XP it's always going to try
and boot from C:. Perhaps this is confusing - but the point is you can
image C: ->D: but to boot from D: you'll have it make it appear to the
system as C:. (Hide or Unplug the original C: disk).

"G.Beat" <onw9mapsgb@no.comcast.spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Buford T. Justice" <???@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:2tevfeF1uh0v7U1@uni-berlin.de...
>>I tried V11.0 when I had the error in my previous message. I tried V10.0
>>tonight which made a perfect copy, but the drive is not bootable. I
>>wonder if this has to do with Disk Management since Windows XP was
>>originally installed to C:\ and when booting from D:\ it sees that it was
>>not the original drive for some reason. I need to leave both drives in at
>>the same time.
>>
>> What I want to do is leave both drives in, run a program that will make a
>> perfect, bootable copy of Windows XP on C:\ to D:\. I don't want to have
>> a simple file backup. I want it to work exactly like C:\.
>>
>> BTJustice
>>
>
> The partition on the copied MUST be set to active. Some programs fail to
> perform this step. PartitionMagic can quickly resolve this problem.
>
> gb
>

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