How do you create the EISA partition?

[JReed309]

I need to have the same disk layout on a 2nd computer. I.e., small (EISA) partition not given a drive letter, then 3 partitions C, D, & E. How can I create that 1st partition without a drive letter?

 

[rand_79]

use some form of drive cloning/copying software

such as Ghost or acronis trueimage

and copy the one you have.. (if you have another one)


not sure what you are trying to do or why its needed
more background information would help

 

[evongugg]

With Acronis True Image you can backup to a "safe zone" with no drive letter.
You can optionally set it to use a F key during boot up to restore.
I advise against having multiple partitions when using this feature. It messed up my Windows partition.

 

[evongugg]

Other restore options for the "safe zone" are a recovery CD or within Windows.

 

[JReed309]

I need to have the same disk layout on a 2nd computer. I.e., small (EISA) partition not given a drive letter, then 3 partitions C, D, & E. How can I create that 1st partition without a drive letter?

More background. This application takes all of the information from the source server and replicates it. When the source server fails, this target server morphs itsself into the source computer. OS, IP, name, everything. The logged on users don't even know this happened. It is called Double-Take. Works great, until you need to make a 'place-holder' partition like I need to do now.
I'm looking for a solution that I can document so I don't have to re-invent the wheel when/if the server fails again.
Thanks for anything you can come up with.