Mail Archives: opendos/2000/03/06/07:12:43
Mark;
You should not have to do anything special.
When you have the drive installed in the other computer
you turn on the computer and when your screen shows
"press DEL for setup" you press the DEL key and your
Setup screen comes up. If your computer has an Award
or AMI Bios you should select the Standard CMOS Setup
and set the first hard disk for AUTO. Then hit ESC and go
to the IDE Hard Disk Auto Search selection and when the
Screen shows drive information enter the number for the
drive which is correct for your hard disk. After you finish
with this screen you can check in the Standard CMOS
Setup screen to be sure it is correct for your drive. Then
you Save and exit. and the computer should boot normally
without losing anything. Just make sure disk heads/cylinders/
and sectors are correct and disk capacity should be ok.
The computer automatically writes the drive info and you don't
have to do any manual entries unless you want to enter the
disk info yourself in the Standard CMOS Setup, then you
would just select type 47/user for disk type and enter the
correct heads/cylinders/sectors information and esc to close,
then save and exit. The computer still writes the info to the CMOS.
Since the partition info is already written into the proper part
of the hard drive there should be no problem with your extended
partition info.
Of course it is always advisable to backup all your files in
case of a 'glitch' and you should check the CMOS setup
parameters for your drive in you present computer before
you switch, and always make sure you have the hard drive
in the room where you are going to switch over for long
enough to get the drive at room temperature before you
turn it on in the new computer. Otherwise you could get
condensation on the platters and crash when you power up.
GOOD LUCK!
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Bob 'DOMAN' Moss
*"Remember, if you don't have chocolate*
* you don't have food"!!!!.............*
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On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 19:45:11 +0500 "Mark at Cross+Road's"
<mark1 AT mich DOT com> writes:
>
> Hello,
> I've got a Maxster 1.2 gb drive with my version of Drdos #703
> installed
> on it and want to know how to get this drive to be "bootable" in a
> different
> computer. I think what is needed is the re-writing of the master
> boot
> record but aren't certain about this and can someone confirm that
> for me?
> Also, if that's all that is needed then how would I exactly write
> the
> command? using the Drdos format?
> I of corse would like to avoive a complete reformat of the drive
> in
> order to save the two partitions of information that I already have
> on this
> drive. Will that be possible? I am aware that it has something to
> do with
> rewriting the information to the computers memory.
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
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