Hello,

    Suppose you have one hard drive (IDE) and you buy another as a
backup.
You want to copy everything from the current operating drive to the new
drive so that in case of a failure of the current one, you can simply
have the backup take over.

Question #1

   How can you format/fdisk the new drive so that it has an active
partion and be ready to boot incase of failure of the current drive.  I
have heard that you can only have one active partion in the system, so
how do you get around this?

Question #2

   Do you format the new drive from windows 95 or from DOS?

Question #3

   What is the best way to copy everthing from the current drive to the
backup drive?

Question #4


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

John Farrow

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