slave boot???
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dragon2309
P.I Dragon
well, that bits right, you cant just transfer stuff over and expect it to run...
But this is just plain wrong, of course you could boot from a slave, i myself have windows server 2003 installed on my slave drive at the moment, a lovely looking dual boot menu pops up and i select which drive to boot from, i can of course turn dual boot off and specify in the BIOS to boot from slave first. Its not "just an information" drive, thats silly, its a hard drive like all the other hard drives, it was just the unlucky one that got shoved on the slave connector.....
Syphr
New Member
Any time you change the position of the drive on the ide cable, yes the jumper must change to reflect it.
if you moved all the files from the master to the slave you could still run them but you would need to re-assign the drive letters, change the old boot drive letter to something, and use the original as the new letter for the slave drive.
this would fix any problems you may have with registry keys, and program paths
if you moved all the files from the master to the slave you could still run them but you would need to re-assign the drive letters, change the old boot drive letter to something, and use the original as the new letter for the slave drive.
this would fix any problems you may have with registry keys, and program paths
Actually, I think he's asking Dragon if he has to change jumpers when specifying in BIOS to boot from the Slave drive first.
That would be no. If the BIOS allows it, you just tell it what sequence you want to use to detect a bootable drive. For instance, mine is HDD0, HDD1, CDROM which would search the Drive Master, then Slave, then CD.
If I set it HDD1, HDD0, then if the Slave is a bootable drive, it will boot from that, if not then it will boot from the Master.
A bootloader such as LiLo or NTLDR will give one a menu to choose which Operating System (OS) to boot from, and those OSes can reside on different hard drives (preferable, actually), which is what Dragon uses.
That would be no. If the BIOS allows it, you just tell it what sequence you want to use to detect a bootable drive. For instance, mine is HDD0, HDD1, CDROM which would search the Drive Master, then Slave, then CD.
If I set it HDD1, HDD0, then if the Slave is a bootable drive, it will boot from that, if not then it will boot from the Master.
A bootloader such as LiLo or NTLDR will give one a menu to choose which Operating System (OS) to boot from, and those OSes can reside on different hard drives (preferable, actually), which is what Dragon uses.
jesbax
New Member
i run a dual boot system. on my master i have windows xp sp2 and on the slave is windows xp 64 bit. there is no changes to the hardware to make it work. all you need to do is intall it by selcting D: instead of c:. when you go boot up next it will bring up a screen to slect a os to boot up.