Can't change drive in command prompt.

[pointreyes]

Originally Posted by kONGO

From a usability standpoint I would think that letters denoting partitions is better than the *nix way of being able to mount partitions as any directory. It gives you better feedback regarding what you are doing in terms of partitions.

Personally I don't really care which system I'm using.

I just get tired of the dual boot systems that people are getting confused on due to the letters for their system partitions.

e.g. I have three Windows OSes on a box and all three will have the letter C for the system partition. Others will have C,D,E. Drives people nuts when I tell them that I have three partitions and all of them are drive letter C.

[Lucas_Maximus]

I like the unix/linux directory structure it is easier to browse I find, it more logical to do things like that.

Once I get my head around how linux/unix does something I have no problems.

before I had a PC, I had a BBC micro, I don't even remember how to do stuff on it if one were put in front of me but i could program in pascal, assembly and basic fairly proficiently on there. however it taking me ages to learn C++.

[wallijonn]

Originally Posted by kONGO

... letters denoting partitions is better than the *nix way of being able to mount partitions as any directory.

Doesn't WXP also allow mount points?, the ability to mount another hard drive to a directory?

I never knew that there was /D switch. I still don't think there is.

One thing I had to get used to in Linux was the CD .. command. I kept typing 'cd..' and not 'cd ..'.

[Lucas_Maximus]

Originally Posted by wallijonn

Doesn't WXP also allow mount points?, the ability to mount another hard drive to a directory?

I never knew that there was /D switch. I still don't think there is.

One thing I had to get used to in Linux was the CD .. command. I kept typing 'cd..' and not 'cd ..'.

have a look at putting help after a command, it will tell you all the extra options that you can pass.

[Lucas_Maximus]

Originally Posted by pointreyes

I just get tired of the dual boot systems that people are getting confused on due to the letters for their system partitions.

e.g. I have three Windows OSes on a box and all three will have the letter C for the system partition. Others will have C,D,E. Drives people nuts when I tell them that I have three partitions and all of them are drive letter C.

How do you do that?

[pointreyes]

Originally Posted by Lucas_Maximus

How do you do that?

By only allowing Windows to install on it's own active partition. Many people simply install Windows on top of Windows and Windows directs the installation to another directory. Unfortunately that directory is an extended partition instead of a full-blown active primary partition. Windows installs some information on the active primary partition to direct the OS to where the rest of the system resides. Hence, a D drive becomes the 'system' drive but the C has to exist for booting up the system which just happens to be the active primary partition.

That is also why so many people install their Windows OSes in a certain order and if you remove one of the OSes you still have to modify the boot.ini. Not the way I do it. Order of installation is not important and the boot.ini does not get touched and I can delete any OS I want and install a new one. My other OSes' system partition does not get touched either so even if a virus attacks one installation it actually cannot touch the other OSes' system files.

You can have up to 4 primary partitions (however, a primary partition can have more than one partition in it but when that occurs the partition has become an extended partition, except with Unix OSes that do what I mention about slices earlier in this thread). Even though with some utilities you can actually bypass that limit of 4 primary partitions, I have never had a need to do such.

By me activating a primary partition, I have efficiently told Windows where to install and Windows will listen to my demands.

I have talked about this stuff in the past but I think my print screens of what Windows sees are gone. Maybe I wll need to upload them again.

[wallijonn]

Originally Posted by Lucas_Maximus

have a look at putting help after a command, it will tell you all the extra options that you can pass.

Yes, you're right - but only if you 'help cd' from a wxp or w2kp cmd prompt. I was alluding to DOS6.22. Not that it matters, I just can't remember ever using the /D switch with DOS. And I'm not about to install it on a clean drive.

on mount points: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;812547
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...unt_points.asp

holy Linux, Batman!

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[Lucas_Maximus]

The most installations of windows i ever had was when I had Windows ME and Windows 2000 on my laptop (when it was new). All I ended up doing is using windows 2k all the time, coz most of the stuff was installed on there in any event. After that i only had a dual boot involving linux or freebsd (which winds me up using, but 1/3 of the universities computers use some form of unix).

Now I have Windows XP and appropriate patches for win98/Me only programs i need never bother with a second installation of windows now.

I going to see if i can get a matlab version for linux, as I have already got a copy of maple.

[Lucas_Maximus]

Originally Posted by wallijonn

Yes, you're right - but only if you 'help cd' from a wxp or w2kp cmd prompt. I was alluding to DOS6.22. Not that it matters, I just can't remember ever using the /D switch with DOS. And I'm not about to install it on a clean drive.

on mount points: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;812547
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...unt_points.asp

holy Linux, Batman!

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I see that mount point in NTFS virtually useless, because anything like a USB drive or a will be shown in my computer anyhow.

[ranjeetks]

Originally Posted by Lucas_Maximus

Fixed my own problem, lol

it CD /D E:\ instead of just CD E:\ long time since i had to use DOS.

I respect your idea dear but a more simple way to change drive is give the command as follow if you are in C:\ c drive then and want to go to E drive then give command as follow for changing the desired drive like C:\e: (this command takes directly to E drive E:\ )