I have an odd question that I have never seen asked before (although I am sure there is a solution out there). I work in a motherboard repair facility as a test engineer, and one of our customers has many different models (150+) that we currently repair. Due to driver stability issues under our Windows XP test area, we have been charged with building up a test HDD with seperate bootable partitions for each model when there is hardware differences. Obviously having 150+ bootable partitions raises some questions.
My main concern is when we get to model numbers 16-18, meaning that all drive letter will be used up (A: for floppy, B: reserved, 4 USB flash drives, 1 ODD, and the rest XP partitions). I would like to see each boot only show the system disk, the ODD and flash drives. I tried hiding all partitions so that only the booted partition is assigned a drive letter, but I always get this message in the light blue screen during boot "Autochk program not found...", then the system reboots. So, my question is how can I work around this? It seems hiding the system partitions from each other should work just fine except for this autochk issue. Can I remove the scan for the autochk program? Or is there a better way to make these other partitions invisible to the booted OS? :knock:
My main concern is when we get to model numbers 16-18, meaning that all drive letter will be used up (A: for floppy, B: reserved, 4 USB flash drives, 1 ODD, and the rest XP partitions). I would like to see each boot only show the system disk, the ODD and flash drives. I tried hiding all partitions so that only the booted partition is assigned a drive letter, but I always get this message in the light blue screen during boot "Autochk program not found...", then the system reboots. So, my question is how can I work around this? It seems hiding the system partitions from each other should work just fine except for this autochk issue. Can I remove the scan for the autochk program? Or is there a better way to make these other partitions invisible to the booted OS? :knock: