On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:03:48 -0400 (EDT), ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for Greg Hayman from arachne list:
That's an "M". It's Mayman, not Hayman. A difficult name I know, and
almost everyone has trouble with it <G>
> I have my 4x CD-ROM attached to my IDE cable as D:
> I *don't* want to add a slave drive permanently...
> can I temporarily disconnect the CD-ROM to setup such a *temporary* slave
> drive (for copying from C: before setup as a new master HD) ?
Yes.
> if i set the jumpers as slave, disconnect the cd-rom and plug in the
> upgrade HD to where the cd-rom was... do I have to worry about what
> happens to the temp. un-used cd-rom drivers in boot-up?(I'm assuming a
No, you should just get an error message. But if that worries you you
could copy your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to a boot floppy, and
edit out the lines concerned in the floppy copy. Then boot up from the
floppy disk.
But you *will* have to reset your CMOS setup. In fact on bootup your
computer's self-test should show an error and swing you into the setup
screen. Then you set the cylinders etc for the second hard drive
according to what is on the printed label on the new hard disk and save
the new setup.
from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs
http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au
Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm
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