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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4435)	12/24/1998 5:42:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

C: is with w98, and D: is with WNT. You can boot from either by changing the bios boot disk from C to D. It is workable but it is not exactly what you asked for. The C and D designation in the bios is really a Master(C) Slave(D) designation. You are right. When you select "D" to boot it will be NT and it will be the C drive. When you select "C" in the bios it will be C and will boot Win98. Generally you would want the primary OS installation on the Master drive. I don't know if there are any good reasons for this other than it is the logical thing to do. It is easy to change. It is a jumper setting on the harddrive. The NT drive has been jumpered slave and the Win98 drive has been jumpered Master. I would leave it like it is for now unless you feel like opening the case and tinkering. The difficulty would depend on the location / accessibility of the jumpers and the documentation indicating the master slave jumper positions. Moving the jumper may require a pair of tweezers unless you have small hands. Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4435)	12/27/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP is too conservative on this one. By all means rejumper the disks so NT is the master and W98 the slave. You should get a disk spec/instruction sheet in the package; just look up the jumper settings. You do have the two drives on the same controller, right? In that big case you shouldn't have to dismount anything. If they're on different controllers, just swap the cables. The bios should display where it finds the disks during POST if you can't make it out otherwise. Also in the disk setup in BIOS setup. Don't know what he means about drivers. You should be running NT service pack 4 to get the latest fixes for big disks and DMA access. Spots

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4435)	12/27/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

You should get a disk spec/instruction sheet in the package; just look up the jumper settings. You do have the two drives on the same controller, right? In that big case you shouldn't have to dismount anything. The above quoted from Spot's post I do not recall getting any documentation with the OEM drives I purchased from a local supplier (Fry's). The drive came in a metal bag and they supplied a floppy with some drive utilities. Hopefully the drive manufacturer also put the pertinent data on the drive itself. Some of my SCSI drives have a sticker on the drive itself indicating jumper positions..genius level concept. Also...from my conservative side... you can note the harddrive settings in the bios before you make the change. Edit, I should read more carefully..Spots mentioned this already Zeuspaul