Hello Lou, On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, at 10:06:04 GMT -0400 (9/11/02, 9:06 AM -0500 GMT here), you wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
LY> This should work, but NT (XP is a flavor of NT) handles drive letters LY> somewhat differently than W9X. Well sometimes I recognize the drive in the bios and boot with both the master & slave drives, but most of the time I would only have the master recognized in the bios. LY> After the initialization, made during install, letters are assigned LY> (at each boot up) according to entries in the Registry, LY> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices combined with "signatures" LY> placed in the boot sector of each partition (logical and primary). LY> This can get a little muddled up if you swap drives around. Muddled is my concern if I recognize both the master and slave in the bios. LY> You will probably be OK if you make sure that the slave drive has LY> drive letters higher than all the partitions on the master drive. Applicable only if I recognize both drives all the time. Remember I use the slave as primarily a backup. LY> we have done a lot of backup/restore using plugable drives without LY> problems. The registry entries remain even if the drive is removed LY> from the system. It will also handle another drive being plugged in. LY> Where it can get real confused is when you swap drives with primary LY> partitions. My concern especially with WinXP registration. I'll have to check more out to determine all pertinent factors. -- Best regards, Greg Strong TB! v1.62/Beta4 on Windows 98 PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=0xB1FE63FA&Body=Please20send20keys ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
