Dual OS Transfer

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BudHop

For purposes of redundancy and backup, I am trying to set up two identical
setups (as much as practical) of W2k, say C: and D: on my laptop computer.
Rather than install every application twice, is there a way to do all the
installing and tweaking of the OS and other applications such as Works once
on C: and do a "transfer" of that entire partition to D: (partition)? Will
not all the references on D: refer to C: and therefore screw things up? Is
there some way to do it and have the items in D: refer to D:?

TIA

Budhop
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BudHop said:
For purposes of redundancy and backup, I am trying to set up two identical
setups (as much as practical) of W2k, say C: and D: on my laptop computer.
Rather than install every application twice, is there a way to do all the
installing and tweaking of the OS and other applications such as Works once
on C: and do a "transfer" of that entire partition to D: (partition)? Will
not all the references on D: refer to C: and therefore screw things up? Is
there some way to do it and have the items in D: refer to D:?

TIA

Budhop
(e-mail address removed)
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Your concern is justified: An installation that saw the light of the
day on drive C: must always run on drive C:.

What you want to do can be done with a third-party boot loader.
However, loading and configuring it is somewhat involved. In
your case I recommend that you create an image of your drive C:,
which you could later use to restore drive C: in case something
goes wrong. Ghost, DriveImage or TrueImage would be suitable
products.
 
Seems a bit OTT to me particularly since you mention Works, not exactly used
for leading edge stuff.
Not only will you have to update each install of the o/s when updates are
available, you will also have to install each app on both o/s, and lastly
but not least copy data across.
The redundancy and backup, will in any case only extend to software and not
hardware.
I don't think you've thought this through, If you wish to backup an entire
sys use a specific mirroring app e.g. Ghost, otherwise a simple backup app
to backup yr data.
 
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