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Thread ID: 44037	2004-04-05 02:05:00	Second HDD query.	Bryan (147)	Press F1

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227245	2004-04-05 02:05:00	I have just purchased a Western Digital 120G hard drive (7200 RPM). I have used WD's Lifesaver and partitioned the drive into several partitions and these start at D etc. I needed to do this to over-ride the hard disk size restriction. I have kept my existing 20G HDD (5400RPM) which has 2 partitions, C: & E:. The 120G I have jumpered to Master and have not used a jumper on the 20G as it would appear that without a jumper that drive is the slave. I have not installed anything on the 120G. When I boot my system, the system goes straight to the 20G and boots from C: I would have thought that the 120G as Master would have reassigned the C: to it and required me to load an OS to use it. Can someone tell me where I have gone wrong and how I get the 120G to act as C: (the Master) and the 20G becomes merely a secondry disk? Do I have to disable the 20G for a while and will the 120G automatically re-assign the various partition addresses to C:, D: etc? Upon enabling the 20G, will the drive letters change? Bryan	Bryan (147)
227246	2004-04-05 02:58:00	I think... if you have not got any thing on your new drive... the cmos will look for the next place to boot... Primary-Master is not the only place it will look... just the first... As your Secondary-Master has the boot files it will boot from that...	00falcon (3801)
227247	2004-04-05 04:10:00	You will need to boot with an installation CD. That will ask you where you want to install the OS. The BIOS is probably "thinking" that since you have no OS on the big disk, and you have got one on the smaller one, that's what you want. So the 20GB will be allocated the "C:" ident (by the OS --- this has nothing at all to do with the BIOS) and the 120GB will be called "D:". That will continue until you get an OS installed on the 120GB.	Graham L (2)
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