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To: pae who wrote (340)3/25/1998 8:37:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Booting from SCSI...(converting from EIDE to SCSI)

From the sysop forum
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>>Subject: Re: copying drives-- EIDE to SCSI
Name: Slider

I switched my system over from EIDE to SCSI a month or so ago and had the biggest freaking pain doing so. Apparently SCSI and IDE devices don't do too well together (at least in some instances). When I first put in my SCSI drive I needed to fdisk it so I connected it, the SCSI controller found it find and identified it correctly, but when I got into windows, it could not find it. Tried all kinds of funky things, rebooting in dos...fdisk couldn't find the SCSI drive, used the fdisk for SCSI (can't remember what its called) no luck. Pain in the freaking butt! After fighting with it for a while I asked some of the MIS guys at my work and they suggested unplugging the IDE drive and booting from a startup disk (I had tried booting from a startup, just still had the IDE drive plugged in!) so I did and fdisk found the drive right away. I fdisked it, formatted it, tossed on win95 and was good to go. I then plugged the old IDE drive back in and rebooted the machine with the startup drive being D (the SCSI). Unfortunately, even thought I had named the SCSI drive and the drive to boot from, the IDE drive still took over and it booted from that drive. (tried switching the boot drive letters with no luck) No big deal. I stayed in there and just dragged the whole freaking IDE drive into the SCSI drive into a folder I named "oldHardDrive" and it went perfectly. I unplugged the IDE drive and have been SCSI ever since!<<
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