I don't know if anyone has helped you out with this yet.. but the answer is pretty simple.
the file /etc/fstab contains the info your linux box uses to mount its partitions.. when you change a drive over from one bus to another, or even from master to slave, you have to edit that file to reflect the new positions.. Primary Master = hda Primary Slave = hdb Secondary Master = hdc Secondary Slave = hdd Now cos you moved the drive from slave on secondary to slave on primary you need to edit fstab to reflect this. (change hdd entires to hdb). If you have put the drives back in their original positions, boot linux make the changes, then shut it down and swap the drives over. If you already have the drives in their new position, then boot off CD1 of the mandrake disks and at the prompt, type 'rescue' (without the quotes) then when it comes up you can look in /mnt and find all your partitions mounted in there. find etc, edit fstab and restart the machine. hope that helps regards Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Crak600 - Michael Sent: Tuesday, 24 June 2003 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how? Ok....problems..... when my friend built the computer, he said teh primary IDE connector on the motherboard was bad. well, it's not. turned out he had been trying to hook up a bad hard drive to it. so since then, everything has been running on the 2nd IDE port. the CDRW drive is the master, the hard drive is the slave. I go to put in the new hard drive today. Linux recognizes my new hard drive, windows does not, at least i don't know how to make it recognize it. now, i had tried to swap the IDE connection to put the CD and hard drive on the primary and the new hard drive on the secondary, and the newer larger drive will be used for non-system related stuff. well, if i swap them over, the computer goes to boot up, it starts to boot linux (i screwed up a setting somewhere, linux boots every time i fire the computer up, i have to exit linux to get back to windows, dual boot option doesn't come up on start up). anyway, after it starts to boot up linux, it tells me it can't find hdd7 (one of it's partitions) and just sits there and stares at me with the caps lock and scroll lock lights flashing. well, i wanna solve this problem....... i've got the hardware reconfigured so i can get on (obvoiusly). what i want to do is just format the old hard drive, completly wipe it out, shut down the computer, hook everything back up the way it needs to be, configure the bios, and install my stuff from there. in doing that, will windows recognize that i have 2 hard drives right off the bat? mind you, my current 20gb drive has 3 partitions, 2 for windows and then the linux partitions. i'm not concerned with a loss of data, as any programs i need i have on cd to re-install with. so yeah, you can say i'm looking for the EASY WAY OUT, but that's what i need at this point or i'm gonna have to get frustrated again, and believe me, i'm sick of being frustrated :) i know i can do formatting of drives from disk drake, and i figure i can go in with the boot floppy i have and just format everything out from there. i'm just really lost, i'm making mistakes, and need to get everything running smoothly. i sure do ask a lot of questions.......but that's how we learn i guess! thanks!
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