New HDD
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Off to get my new 120GB HDD[^] ($205.70 OEM wholesale) in a couple of hours ready to install over the weekend. It will be playing Master while my old 80GB HDD[^] will be playing Slave. I am wanting to set this up to have data and swap file on the Slave drive. This is to get the small speed increase this affords plus the extra security I will feel by having data on a different drive to the OS. My current plans are as follows.
120GB HDD 80GB HDD
40GB WinXP Partition1 40GB Data
40GB Win2K Partition2
10GB RH9 Partition3
10GB FreeBSD 5.1 Partition4
20GB Unused 40GBA couple of questions I get from looking at these plans -
- How can I stop WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa?
- Can I have the one swap file on the data partition shared between WinXP and Win2K?
- Which order should I install the Operating Systems?
The wife isn't happy with me buying the HDD now but my two arguements are winners. <1> If I get it now I can claim it off this years tax (FY ends 30-06-2003). <2> Of the $200 I saved to get this drive, you shouldn't have put $150 of it through the pokies Saturday night while I was getting drunk at my Cricket presentation and the other $50 through on Monday with the girls. Also the fact that I need to get acquainted with the other OS's besides Win2K due to the increased technician work I have been getting on the side. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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Off to get my new 120GB HDD[^] ($205.70 OEM wholesale) in a couple of hours ready to install over the weekend. It will be playing Master while my old 80GB HDD[^] will be playing Slave. I am wanting to set this up to have data and swap file on the Slave drive. This is to get the small speed increase this affords plus the extra security I will feel by having data on a different drive to the OS. My current plans are as follows.
120GB HDD 80GB HDD
40GB WinXP Partition1 40GB Data
40GB Win2K Partition2
10GB RH9 Partition3
10GB FreeBSD 5.1 Partition4
20GB Unused 40GBA couple of questions I get from looking at these plans -
- How can I stop WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa?
- Can I have the one swap file on the data partition shared between WinXP and Win2K?
- Which order should I install the Operating Systems?
The wife isn't happy with me buying the HDD now but my two arguements are winners. <1> If I get it now I can claim it off this years tax (FY ends 30-06-2003). <2> Of the $200 I saved to get this drive, you shouldn't have put $150 of it through the pokies Saturday night while I was getting drunk at my Cricket presentation and the other $50 through on Monday with the girls. Also the fact that I need to get acquainted with the other OS's besides Win2K due to the increased technician work I have been getting on the side. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Ohhh I see you live in Australia. I was going to say 120GB drives are only about $1 per GB but that is in US dollars... Any reason why you want the WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa? I have never found this useful. John
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Ohhh I see you live in Australia. I was going to say 120GB drives are only about $1 per GB but that is in US dollars... Any reason why you want the WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa? I have never found this useful. John
John M. Drescher wrote: Ohhh I see you live in Australia. I was going to say 120GB drives are only about $1 per GB but that is in US dollars... I am getting this about $60 better than if I had to go retail even at the shops that specialise in being cheap for parts. John M. Drescher wrote: Any reason why you want the WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa? I have never found this useful. No other reason than I like C: = OS, D: = Data, E: = DVD-ROM and F: = CD-RW. Also so I don't inadvertently blow away some important file that isn't in use as I am booted from the other OS. Not a biggie just something I would like. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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John M. Drescher wrote: Ohhh I see you live in Australia. I was going to say 120GB drives are only about $1 per GB but that is in US dollars... I am getting this about $60 better than if I had to go retail even at the shops that specialise in being cheap for parts. John M. Drescher wrote: Any reason why you want the WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa? I have never found this useful. No other reason than I like C: = OS, D: = Data, E: = DVD-ROM and F: = CD-RW. Also so I don't inadvertently blow away some important file that isn't in use as I am booted from the other OS. Not a biggie just something I would like. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
There are boot managers that will let you do this. If you make both a primary partition. The boot manager selects the primary partition to boot. The other primary partition is invisible to the os. This worked the last time I tried this pre XP days... John
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Off to get my new 120GB HDD[^] ($205.70 OEM wholesale) in a couple of hours ready to install over the weekend. It will be playing Master while my old 80GB HDD[^] will be playing Slave. I am wanting to set this up to have data and swap file on the Slave drive. This is to get the small speed increase this affords plus the extra security I will feel by having data on a different drive to the OS. My current plans are as follows.
120GB HDD 80GB HDD
40GB WinXP Partition1 40GB Data
40GB Win2K Partition2
10GB RH9 Partition3
10GB FreeBSD 5.1 Partition4
20GB Unused 40GBA couple of questions I get from looking at these plans -
- How can I stop WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa?
- Can I have the one swap file on the data partition shared between WinXP and Win2K?
- Which order should I install the Operating Systems?
The wife isn't happy with me buying the HDD now but my two arguements are winners. <1> If I get it now I can claim it off this years tax (FY ends 30-06-2003). <2> Of the $200 I saved to get this drive, you shouldn't have put $150 of it through the pokies Saturday night while I was getting drunk at my Cricket presentation and the other $50 through on Monday with the girls. Also the fact that I need to get acquainted with the other OS's besides Win2K due to the increased technician work I have been getting on the side. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael What you want is BootItNG http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html[^] It lets you do almost anything you want with partitions and it’s only $35. I found it a couple of years ago after someone recommended it on codeproject, and have been using it ever since for backups (to 2nd disk or to dvd-rw/cd-rw) and testing under different OS’s. You can share, hide, copy, move, resize whatever partitions you want, and boot to any partition on any disk. Leo
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Off to get my new 120GB HDD[^] ($205.70 OEM wholesale) in a couple of hours ready to install over the weekend. It will be playing Master while my old 80GB HDD[^] will be playing Slave. I am wanting to set this up to have data and swap file on the Slave drive. This is to get the small speed increase this affords plus the extra security I will feel by having data on a different drive to the OS. My current plans are as follows.
120GB HDD 80GB HDD
40GB WinXP Partition1 40GB Data
40GB Win2K Partition2
10GB RH9 Partition3
10GB FreeBSD 5.1 Partition4
20GB Unused 40GBA couple of questions I get from looking at these plans -
- How can I stop WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa?
- Can I have the one swap file on the data partition shared between WinXP and Win2K?
- Which order should I install the Operating Systems?
The wife isn't happy with me buying the HDD now but my two arguements are winners. <1> If I get it now I can claim it off this years tax (FY ends 30-06-2003). <2> Of the $200 I saved to get this drive, you shouldn't have put $150 of it through the pokies Saturday night while I was getting drunk at my Cricket presentation and the other $50 through on Monday with the girls. Also the fact that I need to get acquainted with the other OS's besides Win2K due to the increased technician work I have been getting on the side. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
How can I stop WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa? I think you can just remove the drive letter of the OS you don't want to see using Disk Administrator. You'll then need to assign your preferred drive letters to the Data partition, CD-ROM etc. Gavin
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Off to get my new 120GB HDD[^] ($205.70 OEM wholesale) in a couple of hours ready to install over the weekend. It will be playing Master while my old 80GB HDD[^] will be playing Slave. I am wanting to set this up to have data and swap file on the Slave drive. This is to get the small speed increase this affords plus the extra security I will feel by having data on a different drive to the OS. My current plans are as follows.
120GB HDD 80GB HDD
40GB WinXP Partition1 40GB Data
40GB Win2K Partition2
10GB RH9 Partition3
10GB FreeBSD 5.1 Partition4
20GB Unused 40GBA couple of questions I get from looking at these plans -
- How can I stop WinXP from seeing the Win2K partition and vice versa?
- Can I have the one swap file on the data partition shared between WinXP and Win2K?
- Which order should I install the Operating Systems?
The wife isn't happy with me buying the HDD now but my two arguements are winners. <1> If I get it now I can claim it off this years tax (FY ends 30-06-2003). <2> Of the $200 I saved to get this drive, you shouldn't have put $150 of it through the pokies Saturday night while I was getting drunk at my Cricket presentation and the other $50 through on Monday with the girls. Also the fact that I need to get acquainted with the other OS's besides Win2K due to the increased technician work I have been getting on the side. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael Martin wrote: will be playing Master while my old 80GB HDD[^] will be playing Slave Hey, keep that stuff in the soapbox. :) Sounds like you want something like Partiton Magic. However, the previous post sounds better because it is cheaper. Have you seen VMWare? I have never used it myself, but it sounds promising. Lets you install "any" OS virtually on another host OS. Not sure how it isolates your data etc though. --
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