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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (2698)	9/28/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Has anybody else had trouble with a primary partition on hard disk drive one no longer being set as an active partition after using the BIOS to boot from a second hard drive? I ran into this problem with an Asus's motherboard. It meant I had to run Fdisk to make the primary partition on drive one active in addition to selecting which drive to boot from with the BIOS to be able to go back and boot from drive one. I am just guessing but I do not think it is related to the ASUS bios. My first thought is FDISK and Partition Magic probably work in slightly different ways. The bios multiboot strategy is not addressed in the Partition Magic manual but the following quote from the manual hints the two programs work differently. Partition Magic hides nonactive FAT, NTFS, and HPFS primary partitions, unlike the FDISK programs of Windows 95 and DOS. Hiding other primary partitions makes it easy to install multiple operating systems and choose among them using Set Active. I hide older backup partitions but the most recent primary boot partition on the second (all) harddrive(s) is active. My second thought is Win 98. No good reason except for a general distrust of Windows. Which drive has Win95 and which one Win98? How did you install Win98? I had some trouble installing Win98 on a second harddrive. If my memory is correct I typed in the drive letter and directory where I wanted to install Win98. It may have been E, I am sure it was not C. Win98 ignored me and installed over a Win95 installation on the C drive ( KOT drive bailed me out of that mistake). In the end I physically unplugged all drives except one and then installed Win98. I assume that Win 98 did an independent search for the first physical drive..ignoring what the bios reports as the first physical drive in the boot sequence. Keep us informed Zeuspaul

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