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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:34:11 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: using drive tray with 2nd hard drive to back up

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In , on 08/18/03
at 08:31 AM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

>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.

As I said before, I don't understand why you are doing this. The eCS
Bootmanger is perfectly capable of booting these partitions.

>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,

Exactly. This is why LVM is slowly bringing us out of the dark ages of
the DOS era drive letter assignment schemes.

>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.

Sure there is. Use LVM to assign a set of convenient drive letters to the
volumes and XCOPY away. If you need the drive letters for something else
later, just reassign them or hide the volumes. FWIW, LVM's terminology is
not the best here. Hide Volume is nothing like Partition Magic's Hide
Partition. The Hide Volume menu option is really more like dropping the
drive letter assignment to a shared network drive.

Also, rather than XCOPY, you might want to consider using dsync. Peter
has good success with it.

Also, when running a multiboot setup with non-LVM aware OSs such as DOS
and Win3.1, one needs to keep in mind the the drive letters rules do not
change for these OSs, regardless of how you assign the drive letters when
booted t eCS or MCP.

Steven

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