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secondary HDD problems
Name: gaucho Date: March 5, 2003 at 08:17:32 Pacific OS: win2k CPU/Ram: 64 Mb
Comment:
Hi, I have one Fujistsu 2.1 Gb HDD with win2k installed on it.. I am trying to install a secondary HDD (Samsung 3.2 Gb) with win98.. After hooking up the ribbon and booting the machine, neither of the hard drives show up in the boot menu and i finally get a OS not found msg.. How do i rectify this problem?? p.S: I can boot the machine with either of the drives alone but not together.. please help, gaucho
Name: Merlin Date: March 5, 2003 at 09:43:01 Pacific
Reply:
Either those old hard drives are incapable of being set to master/slave or the jumpers are wrong. Drop 60 bucks on a new hard drive and partition it to run both operating systems instead.
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Response Number 2
Name: Alan B Date: March 7, 2003 at 14:09:13 Pacific
Reply:
Two problems here. First verify that one drive is master and the other is slave, and they are on IDE 0.
Second, when WIN2K was installed, and option is available that says which disk do you want to boot from. WIN2K must be on the primary MASTER position for ths to work.
Your best bet is a modern board which allows selection of the boot device, and/or replace those tiny drives with at least 20GB so the systems have room to work.
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