Re: A couple of suggestions
- From: "Michael Wayne" <stormwaterdrain@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:33:44 -0600
<Kennya1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First on new machines you DO NOT HAVE CHANGE Jumpers Setting to boot
to a simple Drive. On Intel motherboards (the only ones I know) just
hit F2 and in the bios you can select which drive (master Slave, Sata,
etc) should be the boot drive. We do it all the time
On new machines, jumpers are No longer required because ALL SATA Drives do
not use the jumber system. It is no longer configured as master & slave
drives. It is configured now as 0,1,2,3 and so on which is determined by
where it is attached to the motherboard and not how the hard drive is
jumpered.
Most motherboards with SATA only have 1 IDE feature connector as so you can
attach a couple of IDE CD- ROMs. Some have an additional IDE feature
connector and this is nice as so you can use your old IDE hard drive in the
absent of a SATA hard drive.
That is why in the bios you can change the boot sequence. If you use the
bios settings for boot up, booting will only be allowed if the second drive
has been setup as a primary drive. That is, it has to set to active with
regard to the partition settings.
The only drawback to this type of setup is that you are entering the bios
each time that you want to change the OS. This is not what the bios is
designed for. It is designed to be set when a computer is built and left
alone after that. If multple users are using this machine, then each one
would have to enter the bios just to switch between OS's. Bad idea.
It would be better to Dual Boot from a menu upon boot up and your system
would be more stable in the long run leaving the bios like it was designed
to be. Left alone.
Hope this helps..
Michael Wayne
<Kennya1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A couple of thinks
First on new machines you DO NOT HAVE CHANGE Jumpers Setting to boot
to a simple Drive. On Intel motherboards (the only ones I know) just
hit F2 and in the bios you can select which drive (master Slave, Sata,
etc) should be the boot drive. We do it all the time
Second YOU DO NOT Need a Second drive...Try Virtual PC..we use it to
test software we develope on other operating systems. Not best for a
second version of XP but since Win98 was designed to run on a 600 mHZ
machine the speed of the emulation on a fast new machine is finee.
DOS Flies...think about it it was designed for 4.8 MHz and you are
running it on a slow emulatot that is running 125000x times faster
FInally it solves the emuletion problems
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
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