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| Thread ID: 75098 | 2006-12-16 07:34:00 | Two Windows 98se setups in one computer? | worl (8599) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 507115 | 2006-12-16 07:34:00 | In one computer, can I run two different Windows 98se setups, each one on it's own hdd, and switch between them using bios? | worl (8599) | ||
| 507116 | 2006-12-16 07:46:00 | seen it done. installed on seperate partitions and switchable useing a boot loader, saves mucking around in bios. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 507117 | 2006-12-16 07:58:00 | Worl........Just out of curiosity, why do you want to??? PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 507118 | 2006-12-16 08:08:00 | I have several small Hdds and one of them is my 'good copy' of Win 98se and others are used to 'play with'. It would be nice to have two of them installed at the same time so that I do not have to do 'hardware work' when switching from one to the other. | worl (8599) | ||
| 507119 | 2006-12-16 08:53:00 | Worl.....Ok, Thanks . That makes sense. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 507120 | 2006-12-16 08:58:00 | A faster way of doing this is to use a removable hard drive caddy which fits into a spare 5.25" bay (same as CD bays). The hard drives are put into a tray which slides in and locks into the caddy holder. You just slide in which ever hard drive you wish to use and it only takes a second to change them around. Each drive is set to master still seeing as you only use one at a time. Nice and simple. :) Here is an example of the caddy and tray you could use: 3.5" Removable Rack & Tray (www.dse.co.nz). |
Jen (38) | ||
| 507121 | 2006-12-16 19:46:00 | Thanks for that idea Jen. I may look at that. In the meantime I have taken out my cdrom and now only have two hdd's on the two 40 pin ide cables, one on primary drive 0 and one on secondary drive 0. I can switch between them with bios and they both run win98se ok. Now, can I safely put my cdrom back as slave on secondary drive 1 and still do the bios switching of the hdds? I seem to recall reading somewhere that this is ok but that there may be some loss of performance? I have a Dell Optiplex GX110 733mhz and 196mb. |
worl (8599) | ||
| 507122 | 2006-12-16 19:59:00 | I would put both hdds on Primary Master and slave . And put the cd by itself on secondary master . And you're right its not a good idea to put cds or dvds on the same IDE connection as a hdd . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 507123 | 2006-12-16 20:07:00 | Hi Speedy. You describe my original setup where I could not switch hdds in bios. And you're right its not a good idea to put cds or dvds on the same IDE connection as a hdd. Is this your own experience? What would be the result? |
worl (8599) | ||
| 507124 | 2006-12-16 20:13:00 | Hi Speedy. You describe my original setup where I could not switch hdds in bios. Is this your own experience? What would be the result? No its a known fact. As you said it can slow things down due to the different speed/s of the hdd's and cd's/dvd's. if they're on the same IDE connection. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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