Re: Booting with two bootable drives (original and clone) installed Left out details. T4x, PATA, thinkpad instructions warn against "frequently" removing the drive. Whether that means 10x or 1000x in the life of the notebook is not specified. It's been r/r <10x within the life of the machine so far. It has the original Hitachi Deathstar, 7200 rpm. -- LS I don't know. If it has a SATA drive, removal should not be an issue. (Bruce) -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]> > The second drive was cloned, thus it has the same partition names as the 1st > drive. So if the system wants to mount the 1st (normal primary) drive it would see duplicate C partitions, with some elements being identical depending on whatever > the cloning program does. The partitions are not of equal size, if that > matters. > > So, if the system sees 2 bootable 2 partitions, would that summon Dante's > ghost? > This is sounding like not a good idea, but removing / replacing the original > drive many times is warned against in the tpad manual. > > - LS > > -------- You can do it but if you leave the first drive in there is all hell to pay, as it will be looking to mount the NTFS partition from drive C, not drive D. I > think it was much easier to do back in the Win98 days. XP makes things sticky. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
