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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:02:31 -0800
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: AMD x2 questions

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> Today I shrank the W2K partition on the TP from 19G (out of 20
> total) down to 10, and we'll soon see what eCS 2.0 RC4 makes of the
> remainder, as a target. From my past experiences with the eCS
> installer, and your findings strongly favoring a blank HDD for eCS
> installs (which I think is substantially correct), I'm not expecting
> a whole lot.

My laptop came with a 40G all consumed by XP. I shrank that to 10G with
PM and added W2K. eCS 1.2RM and 2.0RC4 are now on that machine and they
both installed like they knew what they were doing.

In an effort to remove Panorama and install SNAP, I recently got RC4 to
install over the previous install on the "install" HDD. It is called
migrate, but it didn't. The "Screen" window was still crippled, and
nothing that I had added to the desktop was in "Previous Desktop". But,
that is the first time eCS has not rejected a "used" drive, even when
the only thing on the drive was a previous install of the same version.
But since it didn't fix anything it is hard to call that success.

> But I spent hours today imaging the W2K partition, so how far wrong
> could it go ? (I'll tell you: the first time I tried to image that
> partition, I burned out a TP battery and the adapter / transformer
> brick. It was all running off of wall current, of course.)

I have done backup and restore of the laptop using DFSee. I use copy,
not image. I think image is a solution looking for a problem. I have
copied partitions as well as the complete HDD to a PATA that I put in a
USB box. And they worked when copied back. I don't recall it taking
very long.

Ray

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