Re: Plugging hard drives with Vista

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Sorry for the delay, I lost track of your post in the multitude of posts
on this group. Some of the newer RAID/IDE controllers can interact with
the BIOS and add entries there. In addition to the usual Boot Sequence
in the BIOS, also look for something like a "Hard Disk Drive Sequence"
item. In that entry you can move the drives on the card controller up
and down the list. Other than that you would need to use a third party boot manager but those usually need a FAT or FAT32 partition to install on. Maybe the newer ones can share an NTFS partition but I don't know of them.

John

Sirius wrote:

The thing is, I have the HDs on the RAID controllers that I use as simple EIDE controllers. The BIOS does not seem to differentiate between drives on the RAID as boot devices.

"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%2336c2b87GHA.1188@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Until someone thinks of a better idea you can toggle the drives in the BIOS. You are now the boot manager. I don't think you should change the installations, I think that they are best completely independent.

John

Sirius wrote:

Hello,

I installed a second HD in my pc to play it safe. I unplugged the one with XP and my programs on it and installed Vista on the second one. How can I turn this "mess" into a dual boot system so I don't have to keep opening my pc and plugging hard drives? Should I get a second IDE cable for master/master or just do a master/slave situation?

And if I decide that I like Vista and want to get rid of XP and go back to a single boot, how would I do it?

After that I am not sure what will I do. I might build a 64pc
with SATA or maybe just upgrade the MOBO/CPU in this one but then I still would be tempted to get SATA.

Thank you.




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