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dragnandy
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19. December 2007 @ 20:11 |
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i have two hard drives, and i was wondering what happens if i put them both in at once? does it prompt me on which hard drive i want to boot up? they both have OS by the way. or can i run one hard drive and access it on the my computers window?
and also, on both of my hard drives i have a c: drive and a d: drive, and im wondering if i can just combine them into just a c: drive with all the space.
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19. December 2007 @ 20:27 |
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one hard drive has to be set as slave. the one set as a slave will appear as storage drive, but still keeps the OS on it.
the c: and d: drives are partitions on the hard drive. you would have to remove the d: partition, so the c: drive has the space.
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dragnandy
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19. December 2007 @ 21:29 |
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how do i set one up as a slave drive?? and how do i know which partition to delete??
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ddp
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19. December 2007 @ 22:10 |
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are the drives ide or sata as only ide drives have jumpers for master, slave or cable select?
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dragnandy
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19. December 2007 @ 22:52 |
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i do have ide. would i also need to format both hard drives or no?
and if i some how get a virus or something and i end up needing to format it, would i only need to format the master drive? or if the virus came from the slave drive then i can just reformat the slave?
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ddp
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20. December 2007 @ 00:12 |
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if both drives are on same cable the c:drive is jumpered master & d:drive is jumpered slave. that info is probably on the drive's top. if computer is a dell then both drives are jumpered cable select. do both drives have the same os or what?
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scorpNZ
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20. December 2007 @ 00:57 |
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The later hp's also use CS instead of M & S as they're also SATA
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dragnandy
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20. December 2007 @ 00:58 |
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no they are on different OS, one has XP home and another has XP pro. what if both drives have a c: and a d: drive?
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ddp
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20. December 2007 @ 15:56 |
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scorpNZ, if correct, sata's don't use jumpers at all. i think it is determined on the sata port which is primary or secondary & master & slave.
dragnandy, decide which os you want to keep & blowout the other drive so it is empty.
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scorpNZ
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20. December 2007 @ 17:18 |
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Since you mention your's are IDE, it's simple to dual boot, what that means is, by adding a line to the boot.ini you will have an option to pick which OS you want to use,the added bonus of this is if you have a hdd failure you can make the good one a master & continue working or if you get a virus you have the other OS as a recovery & repair option,personally unless you have a cd or dvd of xp home & prof or some other form of recovery disks,i'd be loath to delete either one, i would invest in a large external hdd if all you want to do is store music,photo's,data etc ,there's nothing worse than having only 1 OS & then loosing it with no options of recovery,my setup is exactly what i've stated the difference is i have an image as backup for each hdd including all externals,i've lost data because of poor backup management so now i have two of everything
here's the extra line you need to dual boot MASTER & SLAVE,your's may look a little diff in the wording but essentially all you need change once the extra line is put in,is where it says RDISK( )for the 2nd line you insert the number 1 in the brackets,this denotes DISK 1 as all disks start at 0 so disk 2 becomes disk 1..lol..
PARTITION ( ) insert the number depending on which partition your OS is on,so if a disk contains 2 or more partitions & say you put the OS on the 3rd partition on the slave drive then naturally you would write it like this PARTITION(3) {i only use caps for easy illistration only} refer posted boot.ini for correct typing
OK regarding the quote marks "MICROSOFT XP PROF" you can make it anything you want in between the quote marks "XP ruLes mAn OSX sucks"
TIMEOUT = insert how many seconds before default OS boots
DEFAULT OS = the line directly below timeout is for which OS boots first,if you want the slave drive to boot then change rdisk(0) to rdisk(1),don't forget to change partition(1) to partition(3) or (2) depending where your OS is situated
Although it may not look like it here there are spaces between some of the letters & symbols,you'll see it on your boot.ini file
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP PROF Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
IMPORTANT NOT: BEFORE ALTERING BOOT.INI MAKE A BACKUP OF THE ORIGINAL CONFIG ONTO FLOPPY,CD,DVD or what ever form you wish
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dragnandy
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20. December 2007 @ 21:29 |
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thanks for your reply guys. i was also wondering, what does it mean when like on the back of the hard drive, dvd/cd drive also, when there are 6-8 pins and a 2-pin cover that says slave, master, and cable select. do those matter? what do i do with the cover that covers up two pins?
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ddp
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20. December 2007 @ 21:33 |
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that cover is the jumper or shunt that jumps 2 pins for either master, slave or cable select.
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20. December 2007 @ 21:35 |
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those pins are the functions of the hard drive, and the bridge that connects the two pins together is the jumper. those are the functions we're talking about. they are suppose to be open; no covers.
the hard drive that will be used for storage should be set to slave. and the one with the OS you want to use should be set to master.
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ddp
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20. December 2007 @ 21:48 |
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cee, some jumpers have open tops & some have closed tops & dragnandy's appears to be the closed version.
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20. December 2007 @ 21:55 |
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i meant the jumper pins are always uncovered. should've been more clear on that one. do they even make a cover for all the pins?
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ddp
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20. December 2007 @ 22:25 |
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nope. the reason of the cover is it holds a tiny piece of copper that connects the 2 pins & to make it easier to remove or insert.
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20. December 2007 @ 22:38 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
nope. the reason of the cover is it holds a tiny piece of copper that connects the 2 pins & to make it easier to remove or insert.
It makes it easier, only if your fingers are the size of tweezers. :)
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20. December 2007 @ 23:04 |
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that's what i hate about the opentop jumpers; you need tweezers or a small, precision flathead screwdriver to take them out. but the opentops are useful if you don't need to switch the settings often.
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scorpNZ
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21. December 2007 @ 00:10 |
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Originally posted by cee43ja1:
that's what i hate about the opentop jumpers; you need tweezers or a small, precision flathead screwdriver to take them out. but the opentops are useful if you don't need to switch the settings often.
Sounds like another nail biter like myself :p
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dragnandy
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23. December 2007 @ 01:31 |
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thanks for the info on running two hard drives.
but i have another question about the drives. like i said before, i have 2 drives, one with the OS and one with everything else. but i would i like to combine them. and im trying to delete the partition with the OS and installing the OS onto a single drive. but doing that, it would erase all my information on that current drive right? what im trying to say is, is there a way to keep everything on one drive without loosing my information?
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ddp
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23. December 2007 @ 01:35 |
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you will still have 2 hard deives as can't combine 2 physical drives into 1.
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dragnandy
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23. December 2007 @ 02:26 |
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oh i didnt mean hard drives but i meant like c: drive and d: drive.
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scorpNZ
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23. December 2007 @ 02:31 |
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OK so you want to combine the two into one partition yes,firstly before you can do that the D drive must not be your recovery partition,is that what the D drive is,if it's a data partition then merging it to C is an easy process,your best bet would be either partition magic 8.0 or maybe acronis have that sort of software,or you could just transfer the data of Drive D to any free space in C drive or to the other hdd you have,then delete that D partition then use partition magic to resize drive C
There are free partitioning tools out there like GParted etc,but i'm not familiar with them,linux live cd's also have partitioning tools
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dragnandy
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23. December 2007 @ 03:12 |
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how do i check if its a recovery partition?
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scorpNZ
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23. December 2007 @ 03:53 |
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Branded computers contain a 5-10GB FAT32 partition/s for recovery purposes,at least hp's do, inside the D drive there will be a icon which says RECOVERY,or just look in the ALL PROGRAMS list for pc help or recovery if it contains wording like system recovery then that's what the D drive will be.
Who installed the hdd's in your system is it a branded model or home made,how come you have two hdd's one with home the other with prof,what make is the comp ,how big are the harddrives,what sizes are the partitions for each drive,what is stored in each D drive
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