Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:05:50 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: 30GB BIOS barrier on Dell Dimension
Matt Hanson wrote: > > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:37:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: 30GB BIOS barrier on Dell Dimension > > Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Date: > > > >Matt Hanson wrote: <snip> > But guess what... I connected the 120GB WD HDD to the > primary plug as master on the primary IDE channel on > the MB, booted the system with 2 Partition Magic > floppies, and PM saw the entire 120GB disk! > Previously I had installed that drive via the PCI > controller card, and ran PM on it from within WinME > booted from the 10GB HDD, and then created a 10GB > FAT32 at the >end< of the 120GB HDD. That 10GB > partition was for running Ghost, and creating an image > of the 10GB saved to that 10GB partition on the 120GB > HDD as a backup. > > So I went ahead and installed W2000 directly on the > 120GB HDD via 4 setup floppies after running PM to > create a 5GB primary NTFS partition at the beginning > of the drive, and a primary 100GB NTFS partition after > that that fills up to the 10GB FAT32 partition at the > end. Good! Why have you used PM anyway? I think simply running W2K install from the 4 floppies, or from bootable CD-ROM would have given the same results. FYI: Win2K has quite a good disk partitioning tool both in setup and while running. > >> 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. Another reason to put away PM and leave it to Win2K's disk management / partition tool. > >> 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 don't need PM for hiding, WinME simply cannot, repeat: cannot see NTFS partitions, period. <snip> > I also notice that my old copy of Norton Ghost doesn't > run on a W2K NTFS drive, so I can't backup to an image > file. Do you know if the newer ones will Philip? Or > maybe you or someone else can suggest a freeware > imaging program that will do the trick. I'll search > the archives and net if not. I'm sorry, I don't know. > Do you think I'll have any problems having set up W2K > on 2 primary partitions on the 120GB? I'm guessing it > shouldn't matter that I didn't choose an logical > partition. I think not. But for all Windows versions, it is essential to have a primary partition on the primary hard disk to boot from; AFAIK Windows can't boot from second hard disks. For Win2K this means that its boot loader must be on a primary partition on a primary hard disk, the rest of its files can be anywhere. > It's a bit of a puzzlement that the Dell can now see > the entire 120GB HDD. But as we've seen in the past, > like what Raymond experienced, you just never know > what a bit of experimentation can come up with without > any obvious explanation. But there *is* an obvious explanation, and it has been suggested before in many a post: Good partitioning tools like PM and that of Win2K simply bypass the BIOS when accessing the hard disk. Same goes for disk overlays etc. This implies that also a crippled BIOS like that of your friend's Dell, or of a Libretto 110 is automagically bypassed..... <snip> > Si.... bueno! > > Philip ?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 **************************************************************
