To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 01:24:46 -0800 Subject: Re: Installing a new hard disk Message-ID: <20000306.012448.-4130059.1.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-40,42-71 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Robert W Moss Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bob 'DOMAN' Moss *"Remember, if you don't have chocolate* * you don't have food"!!!!.............* ======================================== On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 19:45:11 +0500 "Mark at Cross+Road's" 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 > > > Send Marriage, Family, Child, Relational or Substance-Use Questions > to > AT: WWW.CLD9.com/users/Therapy *Responses are Strictly > Confidential* > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.