rec.autos.simulators

by **Haqsa** » Wed, 25 Dec 2002 13:37:50

Yes, that's what I was asking. I would think it would, but after all
this is Microsoft we are talking about here...

by **Don Burnett** » Wed, 25 Dec 2002 21:00:53

>> I tried this trick out yesterday.
>> If you have an old 2Gig drive laying around, install it in your system
>> and put your XP swap file on it.
>> It speed things up nicely on my system.

> an OLD 2gb would be slow, and a little small.

> but you're half right. the swap file should have its own hdd seperate
> from the system drive. the faster the better, and the larger the better.
> and another tip, don't set the swap file to auto-resize. make it 2.5x the
> physical memory/ram. thats why i think 2gb is a little small. most
> people have a lot of ram these days.

I have XP Pro with a gig of pc2700 ddr ram.
I have a 50 mb swap file on my C drive for memory dumps, and then on my G
drive ( seperate physical) I have a swap file set with a min of 150 mb and a
maximum of 1.5 gb. So far, it has not needed to grow beyone the 150 mb.

--
Don Burnette

by **Don Burnett** » Wed, 25 Dec 2002 21:01:57

>> I haven't tried reading an NTFS image file.
>> However, my version will write to CD's fine from the DOS boot disk!

>> Haven't tried the network image thing yet.

>> Drive to Drive image copies are a snap, once I learned the trick.
>> You need to delete all partitions on destination drive.
>> Since my destination was new, this wasn't an issue.

> Yeah, Ghost is a real godsend when upgrading hard disks.

I use Drive Image, and it works very well also with NTFS.

--
Don Burnette

by **Positive** » Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:02:25

AUTOEXEC.BAT

MOUSE.COM
CD GHOST
echo Loading..
GHOSTPE.EXE

by **Larr** » Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:49:56

Sure. No problem.

-Larry

by **Larr** » Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:51:20

Either his question is more complex than I understand, or something is wrong
here.

Windows XP is fully capable of reading and writing to standard FAT32
volumes.

You can even install XP on a FAT32 volume if you choose to do so.

Only NT4 is incapable of reading FAT32.

-Larry

> no, you will not be able to see both drives from within XP with NTFS. If
you
> wish to see both, you must install XP on that second drive with the Fat32
> file system. If you just add the XP drive as your second or slave drive,
it
> will automatically create the dual boot option for you ...

> > I will probably be getting XP Pro soon (I have been saying that for
> > months, but this time I mean it!) and what I would like to do is put it
> > on a new hard drive on an NTFS partition and still use the FAT32
> > partition on my old drive for data and some programs. Is this possible?
> > Can XP recognize both? TIA

by **Peter Ive** » Thu, 26 Dec 2002 07:05:40

Have you not tried Automated System Recovery in XP itself? With that
you can backup all files from c to d, creating a recovery floppy in the
process, and then use the original XP cd to boot from and use ASR to
restore all files from d back to c again. No need for any additional
software.
--
Peter Ives
Remove ALL_STRESS only before sending me an email

by **Peter Ive** » Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:13:03

>On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:05:40 +0000, Peter Ives

>>Have you not tried Automated System Recovery in XP itself? With that
>>you can backup all files from c to d, creating a recovery floppy in the
>>process, and then use the original XP cd to boot from and use ASR to
>>restore all files from d back to c again. No need for any additional
>>software.

>I've never seen this option in XP. Maybe it is only in the Pro version
>and not the home version? I just searched for "Automated System
>Recovery" in Help and Support and came up blank.

Aah, you could be right. I think I've read that ASR is not an automatic
feature with XP Home. After scanning Google groups I see that it
doesn't, but it is possible to include this feature, though not without
a bit of effort, it seems.
--
Peter Ives
Remove ALL_STRESS only before sending me an email

by **Larr** » Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:53:23

I use DriveImage as well. If nothing else, it has a far better user
interface :)

Larry

> >> I haven't tried reading an NTFS image file.
> >> However, my version will write to CD's fine from the DOS boot disk!

> >> Haven't tried the network image thing yet.

> >> Drive to Drive image copies are a snap, once I learned the trick.
> >> You need to delete all partitions on destination drive.
> >> Since my destination was new, this wasn't an issue.

> > Yeah, Ghost is a real godsend when upgrading hard disks.

> I use Drive Image, and it works very well also with NTFS.

> --
> Don Burnette

rec.autos.simulators

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives

OT: XP with two drives