On 09/04/12 01:40, Gary Roach wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: >> <snipped>
>> > There seems to be some confusion here. I still have win2k on the > machine. No confusion here (so far). Hence my request. I suspected you still had W2K installed and wanted to find out how, and make certain you didn't have a large disk translator (eg. Maxtor tool) installed. Q. What size does W2K see the drive as? It's quite possible that you just need a boot delay in GRUB. > Linux commands won't work. You can do that from a live cd. Tom's Root Boot has more than enough tools for the task. > I think what I am going to do is > change the ATA/IDE Configuration to Enhanced, put the linux installation > disk in the CDROM drive and hope that it boots. One of the respondents > pointed out that Linux doesn't depend on the bios settings to find the > boot drive. That's incorrect - if the BIOS can't "see" the sole hard drive you can't boot from it. Period. The CD/DVD is different. I'd be surprised if you'll then be able to access W2K (backup first). > I hope that is true. I may end up with a boat anchor. You must have a very small boat - remind me not to take you up on an offer to go fishing :-) Backup first. A portable hdd is a good investment - or simply spend $30 on a second hand 500GB drive and temporarily hang it off the second controller. W2K is pretty simple to backup and restore to a different partition layout. > > Gary R. > > Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f8259f4.70...@gmail.com