Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:55:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT: 30GB BIOS barrier on Dell Dimension
Thanks for all the feedback on this guys. I'm not receiving list posts to my Hotmail account, and have notified Dan... so I got this Yahoo account for a backup. The latest on this is that I got a WD 120GB HDD and a controller card, and that got the drive recognized. But so far I haven't been able to get it to boot. The system came with a 10GB HDD and WinME. I want to set up W2000 with NTFS, and dual boot the system. But I haven't yet been able to set any partition on the 120GB HDD active with PM so it will boot. Don't know if I'm missing something there. But then I was thinking I could repartition the 10GB HDD into 2 5GB partitions, and then use PowerQuest's BootMagic to boot either OS. But BootMagic has a warning about enabling boot from an NTFS partition saying that it may cause data corruption on the existing 10GB HDD. So I'm considering installing W2K to a >Fat32< partition on the 10GB HDD, and using the 120GB HDD as an NTFS data drive to take advantage of NTFS support for writing >4GB files. But then I don't know if I can get BootMagic to hide the NTFS drive with WinME is booted. Will WinME just ignore the NTFS formatted HDD, or might leaving it visable cause problems for WinME? Maybe if Philip is right, I may just try installing a new version of Western Digital's EZ-Drive on the 120GB WD drive, pull the controller card, and set the drive up on the secondary IDE cable. Then it should boot properly. That is if the Dell BIOS will support recognizing the WD HDD on the secondary plug (in from the pllug on the cable). I've run intob problems with some system BIOS's requiring HDDs to be installed on the plug on the end of the IDE cable. Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
