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DragonNOA1 · 12-19-2003, 07:53 PM

Make sure you jumper the slave drive as a slave on the back of the drive itself. Install and hopefully everything runs ok, but are you saying you have XP loaded on both drives? If you do, just format over the 20 gig and all should be good and you can start using it for data and such.
I don't know about the boot process. I would think if both drives are read as C: then your BIOS would say boot from IDE0, so which ever is the master on there would be booted from. I'm unsure though.

12-19-2003, 07:53 PM	#8
DragonNOA1 Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Na Pali Haven Posts: 2,812	Make sure you jumper the slave drive as a slave on the back of the drive itself. Install and hopefully everything runs ok, but are you saying you have XP loaded on both drives? If you do, just format over the 20 gig and all should be good and you can start using it for data and such. I don't know about the boot process. I would think if both drives are read as C: then your BIOS would say boot from IDE0, so which ever is the master on there would be booted from. I'm unsure though. __________________ The command line, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age Last edited by DragonNOA1; 12-19-2003 at 07:56 PM.