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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:31:00 PDT7
From:	"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: using drive tray with 2nd hard drive to back up

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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:47:55 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:
>In , on 08/17/03
> at 02:34 PM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:
>>I have eCS on Drive H (HPFS) and want to back up my three HPFS partitions
>>to three empty HPFS partitions just created on a spare 12 gb hard drive,
>>to go into my drive tray.
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>>But how can I boot (now booting via Bootmagic) OS/2, which will appear as
>>the wrong drive letter in Bootmagic, when the drive tray with the 2nd
>>hard drive is installed?
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>I am not sure why you are doing what you are doing or perhaps I just don't
>understand what you are doing. If you have eCS installed and you are
>using an LVM aware bootmanager, then this should be a non-issue. Assign
>any convenient drive letters to the secondary volumes and you are done.

I have eCS installed and partitioned using LVM. I use Partition Magic's
Boot Magic to boot at will DOS/Win3.11, Win98 (pre-installed) or eCS.

In fact I was (unexpectedly) able to boot eCS just fine from Drive H.
All the logical drives retain their original drive letters when I install
the second hard drive in the drive tray (unlike what happens when I boot
to Win98, in which case the drive letters shift in strange ways), and none
of the primary or logical drives in this second hard drive is visible to eCS,
either from the pull-down view or from a command prompt.

So as far as I can see there is no way to XCOPY my HPFS partitions. I
welcome further insight on how to do this if it is possible.

I did XCOPY all data and programs on all my FAT16 partitions so at least
that much is safe on a hard drive stored separately from my primary
machine. This is my preferred backup method (backup machine, and backup
mirror-image hard drive).

Jeffrey Race

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