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Advice Please: Changing Boot Drive By Disconnecting Power Plug
If one has multiple drives, in a single system, and the normal boot(C)
drive's power plug is disconnected, will the other(D) drive automatically become the boot drive if it also has an operating system installed? Are there any short or long term negative effects to switching between boot drives this way on a regular basis? Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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I was thinking of some kind of bootloader. Even if you use the Linux Lilo
just to switch between two windows systems, it would be better. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... wrote: If one has multiple drives, in a single system, and the normal boot(C) drive's power plug is disconnected, will the other(D) drive automatically become the boot drive if it also has an operating system installed? Are there any short or long term negative effects to switching between boot drives this way on a regular basis? Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. You are proposing a sledge hammer approach to an easy to solve problem. Google: dual boot windows for many step-by-step instructions. Q |
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Robbie McFerren wrote:
I was thinking of some kind of bootloader. Even if you use the Linux Lilo just to switch between two windows systems, it would be better. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... wrote: If one has multiple drives, in a single system, and the normal boot(C) drive's power plug is disconnected, will the other(D) drive automatically become the boot drive if it also has an operating system installed? Are there any short or long term negative effects to switching between boot drives this way on a regular basis? Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. You are proposing a sledge hammer approach to an easy to solve problem. Google: dual boot windows for many step-by-step instructions. My Abit motherboard has a BIOS setup selection to switch A: and B: . |
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William W. Plummer wrote:
Robbie McFerren wrote: I was thinking of some kind of bootloader. Even if you use the Linux Lilo just to switch between two windows systems, it would be better. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... wrote: If one has multiple drives, in a single system, and the normal boot(C) drive's power plug is disconnected, will the other(D) drive automatically become the boot drive if it also has an operating system installed? Are there any short or long term negative effects to switching between boot drives this way on a regular basis? Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. You are proposing a sledge hammer approach to an easy to solve problem. Google: dual boot windows for many step-by-step instructions. My Abit motherboard has a BIOS setup selection to switch A: and B: . He's wanting to switch between hard drives C & D, not floppies A & B. |
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Not only is it a bad idea some hard drives and bioses will not support a
slave without a master or a boot from a secondary master. Use a bootloader. "CJT" wrote in message ... wrote: If one has multiple drives, in a single system, and the normal boot(C) drive's power plug is disconnected, will the other(D) drive automatically become the boot drive if it also has an operating system installed? Are there any short or long term negative effects to switching between boot drives this way on a regular basis? Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. I think it's a bad idea electrically (especially with IDE drives). -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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wrote in message oups.com... If one has multiple drives, in a single system, and the normal boot(C) drive's power plug is disconnected, will the other(D) drive automatically become the boot drive if it also has an operating system installed? Depends on the motherboard bios. Most modern bios will go thru the specified sequence of devices to boot from until it finds one thats bootable so the one with the power unplugged will be skipped. It also varys a bit with the drives too. If you have them setup as master and slave on the same ribbon cable and unplug the power from the master, most drives will come up as slave fine with no master, but not all drives will. There are a few drives around still that have a different jumper setting for master in a pair and single drive on a cable. Not a problem if you are using cable select. Are there any short or long term negative effects to switching between boot drives this way on a regular basis? Yes, some systems dont work reliably with an unpowered drive on the ribbon cable. Doesnt damage anything but you can get data errors in that config. |
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