Good morning, all:
There are a couple of tricks you may be able to use to boot DOS from a CD and
save your log files to (and run your logging programs from) to a Windows hard
disk
without repartitioning the disk. NOTE: Repartitioning the disk, and even dual
booting on the hard disk, is not particularly hard. I have written a detailed
procedure which is available at www.k1ea.com or www.trlog.com.
If your Windows hard disk happens to have a Windows partition that is formatted
as FAT32, you are basically done. Boot DOS (the version with Windows 98Se or
later
or FreeDOS) and the drive will show up as C: with full read and write access.
Pretty
cool.
However, most Windows XP installations use NTFS. There are free DOS drivers
that allow reading files from NTFS disks, but none that I am aware of that allow
writing. However, the NTFS drives I have seen have about 10-30 MBytes of
"unused" or "free" space. This is plenty for storing TR or CT and a bunch of
log files.
All you have to do is use qtParted (from a Linux rescue CD like
www.sysresccd.org)
or fdisk to create a FAT32 partition in the unused space. Warning: If you
decide to use fdisk, Microsoft has a patched version you must use if your
hard drive is over 60 GBytes in size (most are these days). You can get it
from www.bootdisk.com.
I don't have a written procedure for this, but I can walk you through it if you
need to do this and are willing to contribute to a procedure for it! Again,
dual-booting isn't that hard, but this is a clever solution for those of us
using other people's computers! :-) This is EASY.
73,
Mark, KD4D
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