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From: seran@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (ERAN MEGIDO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Hard disk booting
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Date: 1 Jun 91 10:31:24 GMT
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Hi,
 Please tell me if this is a good idea or are there better ones.
Recently I , in a very tired and uncarring state, put a program in my boot
drive c: of my hardisk. It was an ACC. When I rebooted the program caused
the computer to totaly crash. I am using desk manager so I was not too worried
and went into the ACC selection and unmarked this program. But it did not help.
The ACC still ran and still crashed the computer. After many hours of working
and trying to get rid of the program or around it in some way, I gave in to the
thought that I will have to reformat my hard drive. The next day I came up with
a simple, obvious idea which saved me. I only formatted drive c:. Then I put
in C: as a boot drive again and reloaded from my back-up which was almost fully
entact. 

 I avoided losing all 60 megs but I also came up with a diff idea. Why not
partion the HD so that drive c: is the smallest amount of memory possible.
make it a boot up drive and stick _only_ desk manager there. Then make a drive
d: or whatever that will contain all the prg's and acc's that desk manager acceses.
Then if ever I get a program which kills on booting I can just format drive c:
and only need to restore desk manager. It sounds good to me, perhaps I am 
wrong. Any ideas, suggestions, or comments would be appreciated.

 Also, what is the procedure of putting dos on the hardisk for pcditto? And
is there also a way to do the same for aladin?

 Thanks,
    Eran..
(please answer to my email adress bellow if possible as I cannot read the list
 often)

 SERAN@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL