-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Update: My projects

Hi Don,
    As I had mentioned (and you already knew), the best teacher will always 
be experience.  Although there will always be something to say about 
(potentially) bad experiences being easier to learn from.           lol

    My multiboot setups have always shown themselves to use the actual 
letters of the partitions used for each OS.  At one point, I had DOS, 
Win3.1, Win98SE & Win2000 all running on the same system.  DOS and Win3.1 
both took C, 98SE showed up as living on D: and Win2K called E: it's home. 
The difficulty with that setup was the DOS and Win3.1 could not 'see' any 
partitions formatted with FAT32 or NTFS, so I would have had to run 98SE & 
Win2K on a regular FAT16 formatted drive if I wanted them to be seen from 
the two DOS OS's.  Since 2K can't run on FAT16, I used FAT32 for it instead, 
so that 98SE could at least still see it.  In addition, 2K couldn't see the 
DOS OS's.  So, the only time I could see all three partitions was when I was 
running 98SE.  The rest of the time, my F: drive dropped down to E: and I 
had to always be aware of the letter shuffling.  Pure NUTZ!           lol

    When you're running the OS that calls D: its home, all installs should 
automatically insist on installing to D:\Program Files (the registry for 
that OS will handle this), but there will always exist the possibility of a 
rare exception.  You'll need to be aware of this just in case something with 
a really old install routine tries to bypass the registry guidelines and 
install to C: instead.  You'll have to use the Custom option and guide it to 
the right place.

Peace,
GMan
http://reddit.com
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DSWabc" <DSWabc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Update: My projects


> Finally doing something.
> Copied everything to a safe place.
>
> Copied My Docs, address book and mail store to existing XP Pro.
>
> Replaced XP Home with XP Pro (dual boot).  Installed all Windows updates, 
> Security software and updates, plus some other software.
>
> I will continue tweaking this install and also build my VM here.  I expect 
> to make it my one and only OS once I acquire a good imaging tool like True 
> Image.
>
> Right now I am keeping the old XP Pro as my working system while I 
> continue my projects.
>
> Interesting note.... I thought the drive with the OS on it was always C: 
> while the other drives, including any with a dual boot OS on it would be 
> other letters.  However, no matter which hard drive I boot to, the old XP 
> drive is Drive C: and the new XP Pro drive is Drive D:.  I did not 
> discover this until after some problems...
>
> I was installing drivers from the Dell Resource CD and the default drive 
> to extract them to was drive C:, which I thought was the drive I wanted it 
> on.  Wrong.
>
> A second problem was the folder tree did not look right since the Dell 
> folder was not there.  A couple other minor things added to my thinking I 
> had a bad install, so I did it all over again.  Now it is right (it was 
> right before I did the second install but I did not know that).
>
> I ended up naming the drives after the desktop wallpaper in use on its OS. 
> Waterlillies and Stonehenge.
>
> When I went to update Windows I had a total of 102 updates including new 
> drivers and non- critical updates.  Not a problem except it was bedtime 
> and I let them download and install over night.
>
> I forgot that Windows XP is too stupid to recognize WIndows Updates (or 
> other non-human interface device work) as "activity" and it went into 
> hibernation.  All got downloaded but only 32.5 got installed.  The .5 was 
> a new video adapter driver and its corruption caused enough havoc to make 
> me think a third install was in the works.  Fortunately I was able to 
> figure out the problem and get everything fixed and avoided  it.
>
> Lesson:  Set power management to Never sleep, standby or hibernate until 
> you finish running a major download such as I had.
>
> Lesson:  Moving the mail store and address book does not move settings, 
> accounts, rules and configurations.  AarrrrgH.  I wish I had used the 
> backup utility from http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com.  That _is_ why I 
> downloaded it!
>
> Won't get much more done before my next days off except little teaks and 
> things.
>
> Don
>
>
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