I have an older dell dimension p166c, whose Bios cannot see above
32gig hard drive. I have a 48gig drive installed as drive 0, and I
have a 3gig drive installed as drive 1. I wanted to remove drive 1,
and format drive 0 to boot, etc.
Both drives have XP home installed on them, but the computer will not
boot directly to eitherr hard drive. Bios is set to boot first from
cd. The only way I can boot is with a little program from
tinyempire.com which allows be to bypass a bad ntldr. When it boots,
it boots to drive 1 not 0. If I remove drive 1 from computer bios
will not see drive 0. If i boot through utility to drive 1 I can see
and work with drive 0 from explorer. I have tried various
combinations of hard drives, but it appears for some reason they both
need to be installed, and I can only boot to drive 1.
Can someone explain to me if I remove drive 1 why bios cannot see
drive 0, but with 1 installed drive 0 is visible.
I would like to boot to drive 0 and remove drive 1, any suggestions?
Thanks
Steve
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