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From: markd@wolf.UUCP (Mark Divecchio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Advantages/Disadvantages to multiple logical drives
Message-ID: <610@wolf.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 17:22:50 GMT
References: <6768@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Organization: Systems'n'Software San Diego, CA
Lines: 25
Keywords: hard disk partitioning,80386
Summary: 2nd Logical Unit is more resistant to WAB's

In article <6768@ihlpa.ATT.COM>, jimx@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Harris) writes:
> I have an 80386 machine with a 130-Meg hard drive that I am about
> to set up as a 3COM PC Server.  What I would like to know is if
> there is any advantage to setting up multiple logical drives
> (D:, E:, f:, G:...) as opposed to just one or two 

I have a 70meg HD partitioned into two logical drives. The first is
C: and contains all my DOS software, compilers, editors etc. The
second is D: and contains all my in-process work.

Yesterday, a program which I was working on took a WAB (Wild A** Branch)
and wrote all over track 0 thus killing the boot sector and the
FATs for part of the C: logical Unit.

I used the MACE utility to put the boot sector back and the  D: logical
drive was alive and intact. So all I really lost was my DOS unit. I
formated the C: unit and restored it from backup and I was ready to go.

I, of course (!), had everything backedup but this saved me a couple of
hours since I didn't have to restore the entire disk.
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