That is a coincidence, although I imagine even if they were not all primaries windows would have a problem with that many.
I think windows is limited with C through Z and I don't know what happens after that. I don't think they start over as CC or anything. I think you might have to switch to Chineese Windows or something to get more availible letters.
When I was in the XP beta I had a multiboot going on my test system and kept installing all the new builds as seperate installs. I also had a couple versions of windows 98, ME, and 2000. I was using boot magic to switch the primary partitions as well as the XP boot loader.
I think I had about 13 operating systems going before the whole thing went south. I started trying to boot 98 and ME would start and then the whole thing fell apart like a house of cards.
But I was trying to use a couple different boot loaders at the same time and didn't bother to backup anything.
Dave, I only discovered this recently. As you know the USB flash drive is seen as HD0 in grub4DOS. I wanted to access the partitions on my internal HD0 without making changes in my batch files to reference HD1. This works...
title MORE tbosdt HD0 (internal) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) map --mem (hd0,0)/more.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) boot
I have being trying for a number of times to get the floppy to work on my main machine after downloading DAT.exe and copying it onto the floppy disk along with mouse.com.
It will boot into the menu, I can select option 2 (1394) and after a couple of lines show up on the screen it freezes.
The same disk will boot ok on another machine on the network, but I get the following message
Error Target 1394 Device Not Found and
ASPI Manager Not Found.
I can follow the boot sequence through and open Ghost.exe but of course it can't see my firewire drive directly connected to the network machine.
As a precaution I did try the firewire drive on the machine to make sure it worked ok before I booted up with the floppy.
As far as my main machine is concerned it seems that the motherboard doesn't support a floppy made with DAT.exe so that is a couple of things I find at fault with my new motherboard.
The good news is that the USB driver works ok on the flash drive and Ghost.exe can "see" my external USB drives, which it never has done before now and that has got to be a big plus for me.
The Firewire driver though is still causing a problem and unless you can find a firewire driver that will work I am not too bothered about it, because I can use the alternative mini USB port on the Firewire drive.
Many thanks for all your help mate but I shouldn't worry about it, treat it as the one that got away.
I had an idea that you wouldn't give up, it keeps niggling at you till it's sorted.
There was an empty folder on the flash drive called "puppy" must have been put there by MultiBootISOs V1.4.4.exe when I created this smaller flash drive.
Downloaded and installed the Linux files and it has listed all my drives including the firewire drive and I can access them all, I need time to explore "puppy" to see how I can utilise it effectively.
I had a look on my Ghost 12 installation disk but I can't see a firewire driver, G12 and G15 has no problem seeing the firewire drive because I backup with both programmes to both types of drives.
I like Puppy Linux because it's not too big and it lets you create a "save" file to hold all the settings.
If you make a save file, make sure you make it on the flash drive. I use an unencrypted 128MB file.
I can get online either plugged into my router or through wifi and it saves all these settings. I even added an updated firefox package that has firefox and flash player.
It's really nice to have a operating system "to go" that you can use on different systems.
I also have a version of Ubuntu Linux, that one is easier to use for someone new to Linux. It's a lot more similar to Windows.
The downside is that it's larger at around 700MB and doesn't have a save file.
But it's worth trying if you have the space.
I also been meaning to try to make you a windows XP based PE disk, that might be worh a try as well. The ones I been making have some usefull free tools and programs on it and I find it really helpful in fixing systems and using it as another
I have to admit that "puppy" looks interesting and I will spend a bit of time exploring it, I wandered what to do about the save file so I ignored it.
I did have a quick look at that Ubuntu Linux a while ago downloading it by mistake but we were well into testing at the time so I deleted it and forgot about it.
I haven't got a clue about the windows XP based PE disk, I will be very keen to give that a go as well when you have the time to post the instructions as to what to do.
Since we, along with Brian started these two threads (Cloning and Flash Drives) I have been very fortunate to learn a lot more about computing other than testing from both of you. In addition looking at the number of "hits" it has created quite an interest and I am sure quite a few users have benefited by it.
The trouble is I have gained a lot and given nothing in return and that is frustrating so I thank you both for that, it is a pity we can't meet down the pub for a pie and a pint and a good old natter.
I will give it a go and let you know how I go, I have at least 3 licenses for XP Pro so there is no problem there, and by the way I am getting to know "puppy" a bit better now, many thanks.
I also got that DAT.exe file to load on my main machine by using shift+F5 but it bypasses loading drivers.
