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To: LTBH who wrote (951)6/1/1998 1:10:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Defining the question

Partition Magic, CDROM, Floppies, hard drive partitions set aside. I am talking about two physical hard disks on an IDE controller with BIOS that enables a sequence selection between two hard disks, each with an operating system.

I agree moving the sequence of A drive in relation to C will not change any designations. I am not suggesting any forced reassignments of drive letters after the fact in the OS NT style.

The Question

If I refer to the first hard disk as Bork and the second as Andy and the BIOS is set to look for Bork first and it is recognized by the OS it becomes C and Andy becomes D. If I go into the BIOS and tell it to look at Andy first and Bork second then Andy becomes C and Bork D ( I have not seen the option to change the sequence of physical IDE harddrives until recently, many older BIOS versions will let you change between A, C SCSI CDROM,and in this case the C drive will maintain its continuity)

Partitioning drives and dual boot managers are different matters. The C drive assignment to the first recognized hard disc by an OS will naturally effect these options and may render them inoperable if drive letter reassignments are not considered. I am not suggesting both in terms of the defined question. I am suggesting using the BIOS selection option in lieu of a dual boot NT or Partition Magic style. There should be advantages to the BIOS selection option as there would be an increased level of differentiation between the operating systems, especially if one were to use different formatting.

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