Re: Partitioning (Virtual C) with SBS2003

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From: Mal Osborne (malcolmo_at_silverfern.com.au)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:47:15 +0800

I did something like this once to allow multi-boot of W98 & NT4. C:=FAT16,
NT on NTFS, 98 on FAT32. The tiny boot partition let each OS start up, &
still run on it's file system of choice. I have also seen similar years ago
with an IDE HDD and a non-bootable SCSIdrive. Can't see \how any of this
related to an SBS box on current hardware in a producation environment
though.

Mal Osborne
MCSE MVP Mensa

"Jeff Middleton [SBS-MVP]" <jeff@cfisolutions.com> wrote in message
news:OnJg0I6CEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I've seen this done by accident or when people had a different OS (dual
> boot) on the first drive, but I've never seen anyone give a convincing
> argument that this has an intentional advantage.
>
>
> "ASM" <melickas@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:246a0d02.0403161338.5f93d7a@posting.google.com...
> > Has anyone ever heard of partitioning (RAID 1) by setting up the C:\
> > drive as a virtual drive and then insalling the operating system on
> > the D:\ drive? From what I understand the purpose, in this case, is to
> > allow a place for global settings, local & remote settings for
> > particular software package, on the virtual drive. I know this is
> > limited and somewhat useless explanation but this is all I have for
> > now.
> >
> > Just have never heard of setting C:\ up as a virtual drive.
> >
> > Thanks for any feedback.
>
>

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