Larger HD on Win XP?

[Terry Pinnell]

If you want to know internals of Partitons, File System and Data
Recovery etc you may go for the Book "Data Recovery with & without
Programming"

You can Find the Details and Contents of the book on following Link:

http://www.DataDoctor.biz/author.htm


The Book Also has a Free CD with it, which has all the Source Codes of
the Programs, described within the Book

Regards

TT

Thanks. Can't reach that URL with either Firefox or IE.

 

[Mark M]

On Sat 16 Jul 2005 18:38:13, Timothy Daniels wrote:

OK, Rod, what does this guy do about starting up the
clone for the 1st time in isolation from its "parent"? They're
both on the same hard drive. Does he have to never ever
test his clone before he uses it as a backup? And to test
his clone, he has to add to his "parent" system's boot.ini
file to boot the clone's partition, OR he has to set his clone's
partition to "active" and modify its boot.ini file so the 2nd
partition is passed control by the MBR.

Tim, easiest way by far of testing the clone partition is to use
BootIt. All you need do is make an entry in BootIt to substitute
the new clone in place of the original. And that's it.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
This way there's no need to touch any boot.ini.

However, I do grant you, that the signature data XP writes into
the MBR can be different for the two partitions (original & clone)
so using BootIt the OP may have to re-letter his drives in XP.

I get around this by trying to make sure that Bootit presents the
clone partitions to XP in more or less the same position and same
HDD the same as the original. Bootit can hide partitions and
swaps boot drives around to help do this.