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Husky
SATA Boot drive NOT! Actually that's only half true. As long as there's no
major malfunction it boots fine from that drive.
After the floppy disaster I spent the day setting up all the drives correctly
according to the motherboard directions.
I now have the Drives as primaries, and the DVD,CD as secondary.
But there's 3 hard Drives the floppy, and the DVD and CD, and HP just added a
virtual drive.
I have
A: Floppy
C: SATA 152 gig boot Master
D: Memorex Dual layer DVD Master
E: HP 9300 CD Slave
F: 300 gig Maxtor IDE 10 gig IDE Maxtor data HD Master
G: 10 gig Maxtor IDE Slave
H: HP removable disk 0 bytes ?????
D and E chained to IDE secondary
F and G chained to IDE primary
Used to boot and not be able to find any of the drives on the 1st page boot
screen , but it still booted despite that and never lost a drive till I had to
install the OS again.
Now it identifies all the drives and accessories at bootup [takes a bit longer
now] on the 1st boot page, and the 2nd boot page that shows primary secondary,
they're missing. This might be interesting to fix also, but doesn't seem to
affect anything.
I already found out how to fix it if there's a major crash that screws the
motherboard settings again. Something that really shouldn't happen, but it has.
When it boots and says can't find OS that's when it starts looking for the OS
on A: Oh yeah, an OS that takes up more than a gig of HD on a 1.44 meg floppy.
How Do I get the SATA C: to replace A: the floppy when the next crash occurs ?
Or is A: just the way the motherboard configures it's defaults ?
major malfunction it boots fine from that drive.
After the floppy disaster I spent the day setting up all the drives correctly
according to the motherboard directions.
I now have the Drives as primaries, and the DVD,CD as secondary.
But there's 3 hard Drives the floppy, and the DVD and CD, and HP just added a
virtual drive.
I have
A: Floppy
C: SATA 152 gig boot Master
D: Memorex Dual layer DVD Master
E: HP 9300 CD Slave
F: 300 gig Maxtor IDE 10 gig IDE Maxtor data HD Master
G: 10 gig Maxtor IDE Slave
H: HP removable disk 0 bytes ?????
D and E chained to IDE secondary
F and G chained to IDE primary
Used to boot and not be able to find any of the drives on the 1st page boot
screen , but it still booted despite that and never lost a drive till I had to
install the OS again.
Now it identifies all the drives and accessories at bootup [takes a bit longer
now] on the 1st boot page, and the 2nd boot page that shows primary secondary,
they're missing. This might be interesting to fix also, but doesn't seem to
affect anything.
I already found out how to fix it if there's a major crash that screws the
motherboard settings again. Something that really shouldn't happen, but it has.
When it boots and says can't find OS that's when it starts looking for the OS
on A: Oh yeah, an OS that takes up more than a gig of HD on a 1.44 meg floppy.
How Do I get the SATA C: to replace A: the floppy when the next crash occurs ?
Or is A: just the way the motherboard configures it's defaults ?