|
| | >
| > | > | | > | > Had a HDD failure overnight. Installed working HDD and
| > immediately
| > | > got a blue screen. Rebooted to the BIOS and noticed the HDD
was
| > | > showing as Primary Slave, I had checked before install and
I'm
| > pretty
| > | > sure they were in Cable Select. I entered each section and
backed
| > out
| > | > the same way entered and saved. Entered section on Boot
Devices
| > and
| > | > reset 1st to Floppy, 2nd to DVD and 3rd to HDD, and saved.
| > Rebooted
| > | > with a W98SE bootdisk with DVD support, waxed the old
partitions,
| > and
| > | > established one basic partition. Pulled the floppy and
inserted a
| > W2K
| > | > install CD and rebooted with it and the install went smooth.
| > | >
| > | > Could have done without all of that preliminary hogwash I
guess.
| > I
| > | > did fail to mention the last time a format was attempt on
that
| > HDD, I
| > | > did with a OS CD and powered down before the install started,
| > just
| > | > after the format was supposed to be complete.
| > | >
| > | > After the install was successful, went back into the BIOS and
the
| > HDD
| > | > is still showing as Primary Slave. I don't have a problem,
but a
| > | > question. How did this work?
| > | >
| > | > Oh, the DVD is showing as the Secondary Master, as it should.
| > | >
| > | > Sorry for taking band width. The MB is a FS51 Shuttle small
form
| > | > factor
| > | >
| > | > tia,
| > | > dcdon
| > |
| > | What actually is your question?
| > |
| > | P.S. Fix your clock and/or your time zone. You're posting in
| > | the future.
| >
| > ==============================
| > Hello Mr. Pegasus,
| >
| > First, thank you for the heads up on my clock... Clean install
and my
| > clock showed the same time as the other computers, so I didn't
pay
| > any attention to it.
| >
| > The question is, how did the HDD format and load the OS showing
it as
| > a Primary Slave? There is NO primary Master. Thanks for your
| > enlightenment.
| >
| > smiles,
| > dcdon
| > ==============================
|
| Newer versions of Windows appear to have the ability at times to
| boot off a slave disk. I have seen this several times before but
with
| no consistency. I would not rely on it.
|
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Thank you for the enlightenment. Does, "I would not rely on it" mean
that I should take some corrective action now, and if so what would
that be? To pull the box down and repin to master rather than cable
select. The pins are in the following diagram are plugged into EF+BD.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007L65R
(pdf located on left near top)
I also noticed the post fragmentation in our replies. My line length
is set at 69. Should I change this to better the post structure?
thanks (and I still think you have a great approach to your method)
dcdon
P.S. We had that conversation several years ago. Didn't know if you
would recall without this added. Thanks Peg.
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