for Greg Hayman from arachne list: 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) ? 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 slave drive doesn't need drivers even though, like the cd-rom, it's not/wouldn't be in the CMOS Setup please advise... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:46:08 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LifeRaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: +[SurvPC] AT HDD upgrade (: ANDY wrote: > > my 340 MB drive is packed and I am also using DriveSpace > I need a new HDD > if I got a larger HDD installed, would i need to partition it? Probably the simplest solution is add a second HD to the system. You should be able to attach it to your current IDE cable (unless you already have a CDrom on it). It doesn't need to be big -- even a 270mb HD (which sells for a couple of dollars) will give you a lot of extra room. > and if I did obtain a new larger HDD how would I transfer the > data from my current 340 MB HDD?? By keeping your 340mb HD as master, there is no immediate need to transfer. You just boot it as normal. Eventually, you'll probably want to move Linux entirely to the slave HD and use all of the master HD for DOS and Windows 3.11. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
