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Subj: Re: Master & Slave Drives
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From: VK3XX@VK3FRS.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
To : PC@WW
Greetings to all readers,
Here is my experience of having two drives on my computer. I missed the
original message on this topic so bear with me if I have gone off on the
wrong track.
I have two drives, a 10 GB and a 40 GB the former being set as master and
the latter (guess what!) as slave. The object was to retain W98SE on the
10 GB drive and put W2k on the 40GB drive. It could be that the original
question was having just one operating system in which case my experience
would not be valid. But for what it is worth I will continue as someone
might see something useful in this.
My objective was to have access to either operating system with the intent
of eventually maybe forsaking W98SE after transferring programs to W2K to
see if they are all compatible with this O/S! Which I have now no desire
to accomplish. The W98 drive remains defined as HDD0 and the W2k drive is
HDD1.
The boot sequence has first, second, third, and other drives as separate
lines in the appropriate page of the BIOS rather than just being able to
select one out of several boot sequences as on some systems. Each of these
is capable of being set for HDD0 to HDD3, Floppy, CDROM and a few other
options including "disable", independently of the others.
So normally I have HDD0 set as first boot, and HDD1 set for second boot.
To run W98 and its programs I just start the computer and W98SE runs. If I
wish to run programs on the other drive (W2k) I just switch the First Boot
line in the BIOS to "disable" and save the setting. Then W2k runs on
rebooting.
If I want to boot a CDROM for installing a program in HDD1/W2k I can just
set CDROM as the first boot device. If I want to do the same in HDDO/W98 I
can leave CDROM as First boot device and change the Second boot device
from HDD1 to HDD0.
Whichever operating system is running the programs on the desktop for it
will select a program on that particular drive but NOT on the other drive
which has not booted. However, files CAN be manipulated between both
drives in Windows Explorer, antivirus programs can scan both disks and
while it is possible to start some programs from the appropriate folder in
an opposite drive by double clicking on the .exe file in W.E. often some
odd results are obtained! I think I read somewhere that programs on the
none booted drive should not be expected to run. Maybe that is analogous
to the problem under discussion. I was quite prepared to live with this in
my concept of dual drive/boot operation.
It does seem that a dual drive single boot system is appropriate ONLY
where the secondary drive is to be used as a storage area for files and
data and cannot be booted to run programs on it unlike a second partition
on an already booted drive. Maybe that reflects the original question.
Anyway this might be of interest to someone even if I have started with
the wrong premise. Or at least continue or widen the debate!
Cheers and
73 - GORDON, VK3XX @ VK3FRS
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