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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2002 14:59:24 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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Another post I sent that never seemed to make it to the List.
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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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