Re: My lunch with Microsoft

[J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kari,

I tried a couple others, such as Boot-It Bare Metal -- much too complicated.  And 
Air-Boot, which came packaged with the eCS OS for a time, but was not very 
robust.  Nothing was as straightforward and reliable as System Commander, back 
in the day.  So I pretty much gave up on dual-boot, at least for the foreseeable 
future.  These days, I'm going "one OS per boot drive."  If I need to do otherwise, 
I'll have the next OS on another HDD in the box . . . but that hasn't come up.  I was 
going to have a *custom* tower built with all slide-in, slide-out HDDs, for multiple OSes 
and greatly facilitating backups or drive cloning.  However, I lacked the time or the interest 
to attempt to build this myself.  The first builder I knew to be good retired before I reached 
the point of placing an order.  The second one I approached turned me down for other 
reasons, which had nothing to do with pricing.  The guy I know who was a great proponent 
of such rigs, who built them for himself from time to time, and from whom I initially got the 
idea is today putting his time into restoring vintage race cars.  So, that project has gone 
back onto the shelf.  

What I've done instead is stick to a couple models of the Shuttle XPC sff computers, 
which make swapping out HDDs relatively quick and easy -- a "2nd. best" solution after 
the plug-in HDD one, if you will.  And they take up less than a third of the space that a 
tower does.  Much quieter too !  It's not current hardware with the maximum "horsepower" 
available these days, but is still sufficient for my needs. 


   Jordan

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On Mon, 2/25/19, Kari Eveli  wrote:

 Subject: Re: My lunch with Microsoft
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Date: Monday, February 25, 2019, 3:06 AM
 
 Hi,
 
 > that has Acronis TI, DD, OS Selector (the latter never used)
 
 Nor should you, OS Selector is to be avoided. If you need this kind 
 program, use GRUB2 (or Grub2Win) or EasyBCD.
 
 Best regards,
 
 Kari Eveli
 LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
 lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx
 
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