| Katrina & CDBaby [message #57477] |
Thu, 01 September 2005 06:16  |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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to any of about
6
>> OS's
>> from a boot menu.
>>
>> One of the integral tricks is that the boot manager needs to reallocate
>> the
>> drive letters so that the booted drive becomes C drive, to allow me to
>> easily
>> Ghost systems on and off drives, and between partitions. Ghosted
>> partitions
>> don't work real well if you load them as C drive, and then ghost them
to
>> D drive and expect them to work. If it was loaded as C it has to stay
C.
>>
>> I've tried a whole bunch of different options, including the apparently
>> popular
>> OSLoader 2000 or whatever it's called. It wont even load my partitions.
>> Comes
>> up with an error saying "Invalid Image" or something. I'm wondering if
it
>> doesn't like NTFS.
>>
>> The best I've found is GAG, which is free, and would do the job except
for
>> the fact that I've got some partitions on one drive and some on another,
>> and when I use GAG to boot to the second drive it doesn't seem happy to
>> reallocate
>> C the title of C Drive to the booted partition, hence they don't run
>> properly.
>> I'm seriously considering doing a lot of partition shuffling and loading
>> all the stuff I want to boot on to the first hdd, as apparently GAG will
>> be happy to boot logical drives etc. GAG is really good though in other
>> respects.
>> Graphical interface, password options, single button OS selection, and
>> it's
>> FREE. ;o) It just wont reallocate drive names on the second drive...
>>
>> Does anyone have a really unreal system of running multi boots that they'd
>> care to share? ;o)
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