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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bluejeans who wrote (9734)	12/20/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Whatever is happening with the alt trick is different than a bios boot selection. If you change the drive sequence in the bios boot selection you will still see both drives but the drive letters will be inverted. In other words if you change the boot sequence to boot the slave first the slave will become the C drive and you will have your old machine functions. You will see the new drive as the D drive in Windows Explorer. If you boot the new drive first the new drive will be the C drive and the old drive will be the D drive as should be the case now. If the alt trick works why do you want to try something else? Is it because you want to see both drives? If you want to try the bios boot...just enter the bios. You should see the bios set up option on the text screen as you boot the machine. It will be something like hit DEL to enter setup. Once in bios look around for boot sequences...don't change anything yet, just see if you are comfortable in the bios. You can mess things up if you make changes that you should not. You should get an option to exit without saving if you accidently make a change. I do not want to scare you, just a caution. Changing boot drives in the bios is not that tough as long as you have the option. I do not recommend this procedure to everyone but in your case it seems like a good way to go if your mainboard supports it. Zeuspaul