How to make a system boot from a PCI IDE Controller?

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Thanks Richard.
My disk has only one partition. Is it the "primary" partition.
Have I to set the HDD as first master on the Promise Ultra100 TX2", or I can
leave it as second master?
 
Richard Urban said:
I guess that explains why there are 15 of the same basic
question in a 24 hour period - almost every day. Because
people come here and read for a while before they ask
the same question a 16th time!
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You only know about those who don't read the newsgroup
or don't research Google.
Those who do - you don't know about.

*TimDaniels*
 
It doesn't matter whether it's Master or Slave, and it doesn't
matter which IDE channel it's on - ch. 0 or ch. 1. What matters
is whether the hard drive is at the head of the HD boot order
in the BIOS. *That* HD's MBR will get control. The MBR will
then pass control to the Boot Sector of the partition marked
"active". That partition is expected to have the boot loader
(ntldr), the boot menu (boot.ini), and the environment detection
routine (ntdetect.com). Then, according to the default set in
boot.ini (or the keyboard input in selection of which OS to boot),
the OS will be loaded from which ever parition is designated.

To repeat: Look at the HD boot order in the BIOS. The HD that
you want to get control must be at the head of that list. If it's at
the head of that list, it doesn't matter whether it's Master or Slave,
on channel 0 or channel 1.

*TimDaniels*
 
Thanks Timothy.
I set the disk to first master and the system booted from the disk.
My current problem: There are only 18 GB of files and folders on the disk,
but Windows XP SP2 shows that 120 GB are occupied. How to make Windows see
all free space? Windows showed some bad clusters on the disk, but Samsung
check disk utility shows the disk is healthy. Windows began to show that 120
GB are occupied after full disk check by its check capability.
 
Dmitry Kopnichev said:
My current problem: There are only 18 GB of files and folders
on the disk, but Windows XP SP2 shows that 120 GB are
occupied. How to make Windows see all free space? Windows
showed some bad clusters on the disk, but Samsung check disk
utility shows the disk is healthy. Windows began to show that
120 GB are occupied after full disk check by its check capability.
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I don't know the answer to that, but it might help to say
what utility you used to determine the free space available
and whether it's showing free space on the *disk* or free
space within a partition. (Disk Management shows free
space within each partition.) Have you run the defragmenter
utility?

*TimDaniels*
 
Thanks Timothy.
I used TreeFolders and DriveUse. They show that data occupies only 18 GB
too.
I have not run the defragmenter utility yet.
 
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