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Date:	Mon, 13 May 2002 10:24:07 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: System Commander

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Sandy replied to me:

> >Are there some things you like to be able to do, that are possible under
> >SC but not under Boot Mgr. ?
>
> If you should happen to have two primary partitions: i.e. Dos and Win 98,
> for example, you can only see one or the other with Boot Manager. But with
> SC, it has a way of taking the hidden partition and making it visible
> under another drive letter. So if I open Win98, I can see my DOS FAT
> partition as Drive D.

That could be useful, as I have had such a partitioning arrangement and expect
to have it again. However, I would not want my drive letters shifting around,
from OS boot to OS boot, in order to retain this option. One of the things I've
tried hard to maintain is a consistent driver lettering scheme, between the OS
choices. (Except for DOS, which is very limited in what it can see.)

{Historical trivia: did you know about the bug in File Mgr. of Win 3.1, that
allowed it to see "over the wall" of an alternate C: Primary ?}

A couple things I'm still grappling with, as I gradually work to get this system
more or less back to the level of functionality it had prior to the rebuild:
1) I still don't know why Drive Objects are showing up as folders in OS/2. Either
it has something to do with the now larger boot drive and its partitioning, or it is
some non-fatal corruption of the WPS. 2) NTFS partitions used to be ignored
by Warp, although they very obligingly held their drive letter positions. Now
they show up, though of course cannot be accessed. This is mainly an aesthetic
consideration: I'd rather they not show up at all, preventing the error when they
are pointed to by accident. I've heard of "ReservedDriveLetter," but am not sure
it applies here; in any case, it was real flakey the last time I tried to use it. W2K
apparently has some convenient way to set designated partitions to be ignored.

Jordan

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