David, On Thursday, December 05, 2002, David R. Austen wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
DRA> My existing software would remain on the C drive, unless and until I DRA> decide on the migration of some software. Eventually I would remove DRA> the OS from that C drive. I think that approach, while it would work, has a specific risk and misses a specific opportunity. I'm not a pro in this field, but from my user's perspective, it is best to boot a Windows machine from the C: drive. That is what the OS expects, so that is where it looks for drivers, etc. I think you'd contain your risk now and into the future, and comply with the various programmers' expectations, by doing the following: Purchase a disk ghosting/imaging software (like Norton Ghost or the main competitor, whose name I cannot recall right now); install and format a new D: drive; defrag and scandisk your c: drive; ghost the image of the entire c: drive to the d: drive; then format the c: drive and install XP. If, after a week of tweaking, it doesn't work very well and you have to go back, you just need to restore the c: drive from your d: ghost image. (It would probably be a good idea to reformat the c: drive first, but I would follow instructions on whether that's necessary.) You could also do these things from separate bootable partitions, but that is a level of complexity you probably do not need. This route also gives you the tools to make periodic ghost images onto a separate disk drive, which is a good thing regardless of your backup systems, because restoring from the ghost image is WAY faster than restoring from an offsite backup location or tape. -- JN ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
