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...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Aug 9, 2005 2:29 pm
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...
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jamie dale
dale_jamie
Aug 9, 2005 11:24 am
... 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...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Aug 8, 2005 7:55 pm
... 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...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Aug 8, 2005 7:37 pm
... 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...
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pcossetto
Aug 8, 2005 3:28 pm
... 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...
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pcossetto
Aug 8, 2005 3:21 pm
... 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...
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Lasi Tuhery
tuhery
Aug 8, 2005 9:00 am
Win2k will see partition marked hidden by XOSL. You must go to disk management & uncheck the partition you wish to be hidden. ... ...
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jamie dale
dale_jamie
Aug 8, 2005 7:49 am
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...
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pcossetto
Aug 8, 2005 3:37 am
... 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...
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Kevin n/a
mangasketchpad
Aug 8, 2005 1:55 am
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...
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rligtvoet
Aug 7, 2005 11:41 pm
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...
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Dermot Moynihan
dermoyn2001
Aug 5, 2005 1:28 pm
... 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...
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bty951091
Aug 5, 2005 1:00 pm
'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...
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John McCabe
john_g_mccabe
Aug 5, 2005 7:47 am
... 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...
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Adam Hechler
adamhe67
Aug 5, 2005 2:24 am
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)...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Aug 5, 2005 12:24 am
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...
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jamie dale
dale_jamie
Aug 4, 2005 10:01 pm
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...
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Chuck M.
butnobodyishome
Aug 2, 2005 9:23 pm
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 ...
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pcossetto
Aug 2, 2005 5:22 am
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...
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Jeroen Dekkers
jeroen_dekkers
Aug 1, 2005 2:36 pm
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....
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Jeroen Dekkers
jeroen_dekkers
Aug 1, 2005 1:42 pm
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...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Jul 30, 2005 1:47 am
np The original XOSL projet (mirror : http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org/) has not been in development since Dec 2000. The author (Geurt Vos) started a...
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rufino palacol jr
rpalacoljr
Jul 30, 2005 1:17 am
thanks for the info. may i ask, are there future developments of xosl? regards ... it. ... has ... XOSL there. ... will ... after ... xosl on...
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Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
Jul 29, 2005 2:26 am
Nope, you can't. But you can still use XOSL, you just need to create a partition for it. Just create an empty partition on the end of your first disk that has ...
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rufino palacol jr
rpalacoljr
Jul 29, 2005 1:01 am
hi all, i am new here. just would like to ask if i can install xosl on ntfs partition. my os is winxp and planning to install another partition. excited to...
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Mike Miller
mixmastamyk
Jun 8, 2005 1:28 am
Ok, with your help, I am seeing the possibility of using xosl on a hard-disk emulated el torito boot cd, with a single partition, and a chainloaded lilo with...
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Pow
pow_2k
Jun 7, 2005 1:18 pm
Since the only way you can boot _to_ a CD from XOSL is via an included 3rd party utility (bootmanager? I forget.) I think there will be problems. There is no...
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Mike Miller
mixmastamyk
Jun 7, 2005 2:42 am
Hi, does anyone have any information about how to run xosl _from_ a boot floppy or boot cd? Just so it's clear, I'd like xosl to come up as the bootloader...
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filipkomar
Jun 6, 2005 3:25 pm
Hi, all. Is there any moderator volunteer? I wish you a beautiful summer, Filip....
