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Article #3960Re: creating a dummy drive [Was: Help: ASSIGN? SUBST? ...]
From: John Savage
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 00:00
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harald.jaschhof@vs.siemens.de (Harald Jaschhof) writes: > I installed Windows NT on drive D: and changed the filesystem [...] > Now, when I boot with DOS, the former D-drive is invisible, due to the > fact it is NTFS, so my former "E" is "D" now. > Is there an elegant way out of this, like pretending a drive E w/o > drive D or creating a "dummy partition" of 1 meg or less which is > configured as D but is invisible under NT [...] Create a dummy drive only when needed? I'm just guessing here, ... ftp ftp.cdrom.com /pub/garbo/garbo_pc/sysutil/ notready.zip Dummy disk device drive, aka never ready disk drive, D.Murdoch -- John Savage koala@sydney.dialix.com.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,36fc39e1b96a5cbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f53ba,36fc39e1b96a5cbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 111d31,36fc39e1b96a5cbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111d31,public X-Google-Thread: 1674b9,36fc39e1b96a5cbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1674b9,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,36fc39e1b96a5cbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public From: John Savage <koala@sydney.dialix.com.au> Subject: Re: creating a dummy drive [Was: Help: ASSIGN? SUBST? ...] Date: 1995/09/28 Message-ID: <44e16a$gsg$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> X-Deja-AN: 110918607 sender: koala@sydney.DIALix.oz.au references: <43jc30$fpv@moody.mchh.siemens.de> organization: Gumleaf Smoke Signals Telegraph Company newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc