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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:42:27 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Far Out Warp ? - Drive images

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The following falls under the heading of; One of many ways to do something.

You use DI to make an image of a drive, right? For some months now that
has been my preferred method of backup/restore and clone. Restore
consists of copying a partition from a plugin, backup second - or third
or forth - HD. In the case of my primary machine the first HD is also
plugin so restore is just swap HD and boot. Or swap a different HD and
it becomes a quite different machine.

However, tho I have DI I never use it. I make all the images using PM
3, always while booted from a DOS floppy. PM 3.0 can be run from B:,
3.05 won't fit on a floppy so I run it from a ZIP drive. I may run it
from a HD providing I am not doing anything that would effect the
partition PM is running from. When booted from a DOS floppy drive
letters have no effect on the process. I can copy any partition to any
equal or larger free space, on any HD.

J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> Ray replied:
>
>
>>I have a dumb question. Is this an academic exercise, just to see if
>>you can do it? What are you saving the first 8G for?
>
>
> No, it's practical, not academic. I could post you a map of the current system,
> and of the system I will be building. Of course, there is no problem getting
> Boot Mgr. and all the DOS stuff in early on the drive, but I have an existing
> drive structure I want to work around, because I'm used to it,

Every once in a while a zero base budget is a good idea. Computers,
like budgets, collect baggage that no longer serves us well.

> and certain things
> are dependent on it. One factor, for example, is that I use Drive Image 4. It
> will only write to FAT-16 space it can see, ergo, within the first 8G. I have long
> kept a 2G partition available for this purpose. Given the size of the new drive,
> I wouldn't mind having 2 or 3 partitions like this: the space is not a problem, but
> their location *is.* I suppose I could move to a later version of DI, which probably
> now works under Win, as does its sibling Partition Magic, but I'd rather not.
>
> One of my ECS partitions will be located within the first 8G, but the other one --
> and like Peter, I have long favored a full-size, fully-equipped Maintenance Partition --
> is going to fall a long ways out.
>

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