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Lost Thumb Drive

ROAM tells Pegasus to ignore the driveletter. But the used directorystructure has to be the same.

So - if you copy your backup to the same directory(s) than on your stick, it should do as exspected - in theory. Test it.

bye   Olaf

 

<p>ROAM tells Pegasus to ignore the driveletter. But the used directorystructure has to be the same. </p><p>So - if you copy your backup to the same directory(s) than on your stick, it should do as exspected - in theory. Test it.</p><p>bye   Olaf</p><p> </p>

Immediate problem: I don't have my thumb drive with me today. I want to run Pegasus, from this hard drive, in     "-roam"    mode so that I don't have to actually install it on this disk.

It is currently located in a backup directory on this hard drive.


=============DETAILS==============

I have been living off a thumb drive for the past several months.

Hooray for the Pegasus team writing an app that can do this (!)

I thought for certain that I put the thumb drive in my pocket this morning.

Hopefully, I just screwed up and left it at home. (yikes if it fell out while I was walking to work)

Whatever, whatever, it didn't make it to the shop with me.

I do a simple little Xcopy command from a BatFile (dinosaur tech; the greatest) several times a week, just for this very reason.

I thought that since this command runs Pegasus from the thumb drive...

winpm-32 -roam -A

...that it should run Pegasus from the hard drive as well.

Nope; the program opens the little splash thing, I enter the user name, then I get this message

The user you are attempting to "become" (admin) does not exist on this system.

I get the same message whether I try that from a command line, or I click on the shortcut link from Windows® Explorer©.

For various reasons, I really don't want to install Pegasus on this machine

Is there a magic way to run Pegasus from the backup directory ?  I want to do the   -roam    thing. I have two such directories (an odd/even day scheme) if that helps anything.


<p>Immediate problem: I don't have my thumb drive with me today. I want to run Pegasus, from this hard drive, in     <u><em>"-roam"</em></u>    mode so that I don't have to actually install it on this disk.</p><p>It is currently located in a backup directory on this hard drive.</p><p> </p><p>=============DETAILS==============</p><p>I have been living off a thumb drive for the past several months.</p><p>Hooray for the Pegasus team writing an app that can do this (!)</p><p>I thought for certain that I put the thumb drive in my pocket this morning.</p><p>Hopefully, I just screwed up and left it at home. (yikes if it fell out while I was walking to work)</p><p>Whatever, whatever, it didn't make it to the shop with me.</p><p>I do a simple little Xcopy command from a BatFile (dinosaur tech; the greatest) several times a week, just for this very reason.</p><p>I thought that since this command runs Pegasus from the thumb drive...</p><p></p><blockquote><em><u>winpm-32 -roam -A</u></em></blockquote><p></p><p>...that it should run Pegasus from the hard drive as well.</p><p>Nope; the program opens the little splash thing, I enter the user name, then I get this message</p><p></p><blockquote><em><u>The user you are attempting to "become" (admin) does not exist on this system.</u></em></blockquote><p></p><p>I get the same message whether I try that from a command line, or I click on the shortcut link from Windows® Explorer©.</p><p>For various reasons, I really don't want to install Pegasus on this machine</p><p>Is there a magic way to run Pegasus from the backup directory ?  I want to do the   <em><u>-roam</u></em>    thing. I have two such directories (an odd/even day scheme) if that helps anything.</p><p> </p>
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