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4604
Hi all, While reading back I've seen that there are quite a few ppl who have had problems with GHOST & XOSL. I'm currently installing dual-boot systems on...
Jeroen Dekkers
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Aug 1, 2005
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4605
Little add-on to my previous question.. The partition image has to be created using the IMAGE ALL (sector-by-sector) option. Otherwise it doesn't work....
Jeroen Dekkers
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Aug 1, 2005
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4606
I recently installed a second hard drive (HD1) that I had previously used with PC2 into PC1, so PC1 now includes: HD0 - primary master HD1 - primary slave Both...
pcossetto
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Aug 2, 2005
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Here is the best FREE tool I have found for resizing FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (NT, 2000, XP), ext2, ext3, reiserfs, and several other partition types. Get the ...
Chuck M.
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Aug 2, 2005
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4608
In order to make a partition hidden, you cannot rely on xosl alone. The partitions properties must actually be set to hidden (IE using partition magic or...
jamie dale
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Aug 4, 2005
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I don't think you are right on this. In many situations, you can rely on XOSL to hide chosen partitions and it permits you to select which partition is...
Antoine Wells Campagna
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Aug 5, 2005
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XOSL's partition hiding features work great. I've been using it for years. Give it a try. XOSL has been a dream come true after years of using (and buying)...
Adam Hechler
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Aug 5, 2005
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... I agree. ... Same here. I've never had any problems with XOSL's partition hiding; if it wasn't able to hide partitions it wouldn't be of much use for...
John McCabe
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Aug 5, 2005
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4612
'Scuse me for asking, but isn't partition hiding irrelevant with WinNT/2k? Is it not the case that these OS's just walk right over all that and show you the...
bty951091
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Aug 5, 2005
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4613
... Just to take one example they can get a bit excited wondering about the swapfile. Is it not the case that these OS's just walk right over all ... They are...
Dermot Moynihan
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Aug 5, 2005
1:28 pm
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Hello, Does any know if the XOSL project will continue in the future. Altough i've seen more posts with this question, i would like to see further development...
rligtvoet
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Aug 7, 2005
11:41 pm
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I've been having trouble with XOSL and my PS/2 scrollwheel mouse. The specific model is VG-BAMO-820 (If that helps), and whenever XOSL starts, it flys to the...
Kevin n/a
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Aug 8, 2005
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... I have since tried using XOSL to hide other partitions on the primary slave drive (ie non-bootable partitions), but none are actually hidden when the...
pcossetto
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Aug 8, 2005
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Hi all Sorry I may be wrong - I was trying to help out one other user who had a problem with their partition hiding in the last digest. Anyway, as I said I...
jamie dale
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Aug 8, 2005
7:49 am
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Win2k will see partition marked hidden by XOSL. You must go to disk management & uncheck the partition you wish to be hidden. ... ...
Lasi Tuhery
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Aug 8, 2005
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4619
... I'm assuming that the disk management you are referring to is the Disk Management console that is one of Windows services, however there is no way to...
pcossetto
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Aug 8, 2005
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4620
... Thanks for your comments. A couple of points from my end: - I currently using Windows 2000, not the 9x versions that might experience the problems you are...
pcossetto
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Aug 8, 2005
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4621
... Yes. Type diskmgmt.msc, right click on the partition you don't want to show, select Modify drive letter ... and Delete the associated drive letter. You can...
Antoine Wells Campagna
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Aug 8, 2005
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... That is not true. A bug in Win98 that has never been corrected can corrupt the partition table if it doesn't recognise the filesystem of the last visible...
Antoine Wells Campagna
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Aug 8, 2005
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... I've got to confess I never tried hiding partitions on my slave as I use it for file backup so it's never been an issue for me (YET...). There is some...
jamie dale
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Aug 9, 2005
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Hi guys Don't know if anybody else has a problem with this. Is there any chance that when replying to a question that was in the Digest you don't put the...
Dermot Moynihan
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Aug 9, 2005
2:29 pm
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In my occasionally humble experience, the best way to deal with hiding partitions in XOSL if you have two physical hard drives is to confine your slave drive...
Dermot Moynihan
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Aug 9, 2005
2:43 pm
4626
Doc Chiron here: XOSL performs partition hiding by changing the partition type to a different value by "or"ing the original value with 0x10, but otherwise...
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Aug 9, 2005
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4627
... Actually, you can show partitions from the first drive when booting Windows from the second. I currently am WinXP from the second drive with on hidden...
Antoine Wells Campagna
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Aug 9, 2005
9:13 pm
4628
... The bug Antoine was referring to applied to all Microsoft's DOS- based OS's (DOS, Win95, Win98, WinME). I thought it was file system corruption rather...
Dan Goodell
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Aug 9, 2005
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4629
... Thanks for the heads-up, Dermot. I'd been skipping over all those "digest" posts because I didn't know there were real threads in them....
Dan Goodell
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Aug 9, 2005
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4630
... Bootit-NG (BING, to its fans) is conceptually similar to RPM. It has the option of running with a standard 4-slot primary partition table, or a...
Dan Goodell
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Aug 9, 2005
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Doc CHiron here: (comments interspersed) ... Doc: I tend to agree with you, Dan, on the FAT corruption issue (the FAT attributes (starting sector & size) of...
doc_chiron
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Aug 10, 2005
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Why not the one-floppy xosl image as mentioned in message no. 4601 of Antoine be compressed and kept in the files section of xosl forum for the benefit of the...
phaneendra_rao
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Aug 13, 2005
2:56 pm
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... I was about to say I agree. But then I realised I can put the file myself. So it is there. Feel free to improve it, redistribute it or anything. There is...
Antoine Wells Campagna
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Aug 13, 2005
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