From:	"Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris DOT umpi DOT maine DOT edu>
Organization:	University of Maine at PI
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:09:52 -0500
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Installing a new hard disk
In-reply-to:	<200003060505.AAA31600@delorie.com>
X-mailer:	Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a)
Message-ID:	<4FFFFF2D25@polaris.umpi.maine.edu>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To:	dj-admin AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To:	listserv AT delorie DOT com

Dear Mark1 AT mich DOT com

If your sole intent is to just move this drive to another machine and 
boot it, and if it is already booting the computer that it is in, then 
you should have no problems, and not have to do anything except 
physically reconnect the drive.  Assuming the drive is an IDE one,
just make sure it's the "master" drive on the primary drive 
controller. If it's SCSI, then just make sure it's got SCSI ID #0.

DOS, or at least any version since 3.3, and including DR-DOS, 
doesn't keep machine-specific information on the hard drive that will 
prevent it from booting.

It is just possible, though, that if you are moving it to an older, 286 
or under computer, that there will be some BIOS incompatibilities 
with the version of DOS that you're planning to use. Anthing newer 
than that shouldn't be any problem, though.

Anthony J. Albert

> Message-Id: <200003060045 DOT TAA21973 AT server1 DOT mich DOT com>
> To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> From: "Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com>
> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 19:45:11 +0500
> Subject: Installing a new hard disk
>
> 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
>


==============================================================
Anthony J. Albert                albert AT polaris DOT umpi DOT maine DOT edu
Systems and Software Support Specialist           Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle

Attention: the next meeting of the Time Travellers' Society
        will be last Tuesday.

- Raw text -