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To: LTBH who wrote (921)	5/30/1998 10:39:00 PM
From: tony	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I have NT4 PII-233 with 64 MB RAM with intel atx motherboard and system is scsi based. I have 20" monitor from view sonic and I was thinking of adding 21" monitor from view sonic also. video card is from Diamond Fire GL1000. I will also add 64 MB ram as it is dirt cheap $29 for 32MB. Please suggest the video card, I should buy for running w/2 monitors. Thanks, gsingh1

To: LTBH who wrote (921)	5/30/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Partitions and Drive Letters Normally, changing the first recognized partition/device in the BIOS means that the BIOS will attempt to boot from that device first; if no boot is found here it will go to the next device. Agreed This does NOT change the physical partition designation My understanding is there is no physical designation on the drive itself. For example I took a SCSI "C" drive from a parts computer with working OS (DOS) and daisy chained it to a SCSI drive in an almost identical computer. All I did was change the SCSI ID and termination. The drive showed up as an E drive on the new machine. (the machine already had C: and D: drives. Are SCSI hard disks treated differently than IDE hard disks? Is there perhaps a designation in the controller? If I have SCSI and IDE and change the BIOS sequence to look at the SCSI drive first and the machine boots from the SCSI drive won't the SCSI drive then become the C: drive? but simply looks there first. and assigns C: to the first boot hard disk that it finds. NT functions separate from BIOS will have to be addressed by another. Agreed, the BIOS functions precede the OS functions but it is the OS that assigns the drive letter. In DOS and Win95 I do not believe there are any software options to change drive letter designations of hard disks (removables and CD's can be changed). I am not so sure about NT. IMO Zeuspaul

To: LTBH who wrote (921)	5/31/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

That would have been my interpretation as well. The BIOS would have to present the drives physically with different addresses to affect the drive letter assignments. If that doesn't happen when you choose the boot device (which is entirely independent), then you can't just copy NT and boot it. Or at least I have never been successful at doing so. I've tried tweaking boot.ini to boot properly from the alternate place, even with it on the same partition as the uncopied partition. No soap. There may be further tweaking possible but I don't know what. Spots