Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 05:21:40 +0700 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: overlay programs [LIB]
>> I'm just curious - in a 20/30/40GB HDD L100/L110 >> scenario, if you're going to run Win'2K as your one >> and only OS - are these overlay programs totally >> redundant? And if not, what purpose would they serve >> in such a scenario? > > Primarily, I think you would have problems if you had > a total system crash and had to reboot from DOS to fix > it. At that point you could only see the 8gb, and if > the files you needed to fix whatever problem you had > were beyond that, they would be inaccessible. With the > overlay running, you could still access all your other > partitions in DOS. This is the only circumstance that > immediately comes to mind. Sounds to me like the overlay thing itself is introducing a significant level of FUD and increasing the chances that you're going to have the problems in the first place... Wouldn't it be a lot simpler/safer/reliable just to keep all the troubleshooting/recovery stuff in the first 8GB than to do the overlay thing? ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
