WINDOGS

[Cyber Source]

If you change what used to be the master drive and make it the slave
drive, it will not blow out the mbr (where lilo sits) but it won't use
lilo from that drive unless you change the boot order in your bios to
boot from the hdd1 instead of hdd0 first.
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 22:55, Scott Lawton wrote:
> I got the machine home and put the drives in, but it wouldn't detect the 
> Primary master. After 5 reboots and cable position swapping, I have 
> determined that part of the problem must be a bad IDE cable. If the 
> drives are in the bays, the BIOS will detect the drive connected to the 
> plug at the end of the cable, but not the one connected to the middle. 
> If that drive is left dangling by the cable, instead of mounted in the 
> drive bay, all is fine. Go figure !!
> 
> All my progam paths are screwed up now because of the addition of the 
> second drive. What used to be D: is now F:. If  I swap the jumpers so 
> what is master will be slave, and what is slave will be master, in order 
> to make D be D again, will the blow out LiLo again ?
> There will still only be Mandrake and Win 98.
> 
> I have unpartioned space left on the drive with Win 98. Is it possible 
> to some how move the Mandrake "en masse" to that space so I can try to 
> fix Windogs ?
> Windogs is listed as a file now, not a directory. I want to try to fix 
> it, and one of the install options on my old copy of windows [ on 13 
> floppies ] is repair/replace missing or corrupted files, but it would 
> rewrite the MBR again.
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