Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:43:27 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: 30GB BIOS barrier on Dell Dimension
Matt Hanson wrote: > > 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. Ah, that's why the lines in your message are not wrapped at 72 or so chars. So I had to edit a bit to get the quotes right, sorry. > 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? You can have a FAT32 WinME boot drive (primary, C:) and then install Win2K in a logical partition (D:). First install WinME in C:, then Win2K in D:, and Win2K will put its boot loader + boot manager in C: and as WinME doesn't know about NTFS it won't be bothered. (Don't be put off by FDISK knowing about NTFS; it just knows the NTFS partition type but can't do anything with it). On my desktop I use Air-Boot. This is very flexible freeware, it can hide any partition and has a MBR virus protection scheme. It can also boot from USB drives CD-ROMs, floppies and -if I'm not mistaken- other harddisks. (But the author doesn't like people working for US govt, so if you do.....) I use it because it is probably the only boot mgr around that can boot OS/2 from a logical partition yet doesn't need a primary partition slot. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/air-bootv102_en.zip > 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. If you install Win2K anyway and use it to partition the 120 GB HD, you might do without any disk manager at all. As soon as the proper entries have been put in the MBR, chances are that other operating systems (e.g., DOS + Win9x/ME) will see the entire disk. >From what I understand the 120GB HD is empty, so it wil only cost some time to experiment. And afterward you can install WinME somewhere and use Win2K CD-ROM and/or recovery console to restore Win2K's boot mgr. I'd say: enough suggestions, time to give it a try? Philip ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
