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When using the NTloader is the specification of the disk number in the Arc
Path in boot.ini affected by which drive you are booting from? i.e if
booting from IDE master, then is master rdisk=0 and slave rdisk=1, and if
booting from the slave is the master rdisk=1 and the slave rdisk= 0?
 
Example of boot.ini file with two physical hard drives installed
with XP Pro on Drive 1 (Master) and XP Home on Drive w (Slave):

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

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Carey Frisch
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| When using the NTloader is the specification of the disk number in the Arc
| Path in boot.ini affected by which drive you are booting from? i.e if
| booting from IDE master, then is master rdisk=0 and slave rdisk=1, and if
| booting from the slave is the master rdisk=1 and the slave rdisk= 0?
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| Victor
 
These articles may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=155222
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=102873

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| When using the NTloader is the specification of the disk number in the Arc
| Path in boot.ini affected by which drive you are booting from? i.e if
| booting from IDE master, then is master rdisk=0 and slave rdisk=1, and if
| booting from the slave is the master rdisk=1 and the slave rdisk= 0?
| --
| Victor
 
Regardless of what you are booting from, the primary of channel 1 is
typically id 0. Slave is ID1. Primary of channel 2 is 3 , etc etc...

Cable select settings are more physical. Drive on the end of the cable is
"Primary" Drive in the middle is "secondary" if there is a drive on the end,
"primary" if there is not.

I hope that makes sense :) .

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Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who do understand binary
and those who don't.
 
Thanks Carey but my question is whether the configuration you have given
would still be the same had I booted from the slave drive. That is to say is
the disk number determined by the physical drive - master = 0 and slave = 1
or is the disk zero the current boot disk (as configured in the bios).
 
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