Dude, where's my hard drive?

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Hiawatha Bray

I'm running a PC with a SATA drive and an IDE drive. The SATA drive, which
boots the machine, is running Win XP. But Windows doesn't see the IDE drive
and I can't access it. This IDE drive has Linux on it. I used to boot into
it using a Linux boot loader. Recently my drive crashed and I installed a
new one. But I lost the boot loader in the process. Does anybody know how
I can install just the boot loader on my new drive so I can boot into Linux
on the other machine? Thanks!
 
Hiawatha said:
I'm running a PC with a SATA drive and an IDE drive. The SATA drive, which
boots the machine, is running Win XP. But Windows doesn't see the IDE drive
and I can't access it. This IDE drive has Linux on it. I used to boot into
it using a Linux boot loader. Recently my drive crashed and I installed a
new one. But I lost the boot loader in the process. Does anybody know how
I can install just the boot loader on my new drive so I can boot into Linux
on the other machine? Thanks!
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You can restore your linux boot loader using your linux
installation CD. You should ask how in one of the linux newsgroups.
 
A fundamental question is whether anything can see the IDE drive. Does
the BIOS see it?
 
Irwin said:
A fundamental question is whether anything can see the IDE drive. Does
the BIOS see it?
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No, the fundamental question is whether WinXP can see a LINUX native drive.
 
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