Re: C drive is not first disk...
- From: "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:58:15 -0700
"Ian R" wrote:
When I first built my system I only had one drive (WD1500)
and OS and Apps installed without any problems.
Its currently configured with C as the primary drive plus
extended partition with three logical drives
I've since added more physical drives (a mix of SATA
and IDE).
I later realised that although I thought the WD1500 was
my first physical drive it actually shows up in LDM as disk 3.
I think its connected to SATA 3 instead of SATA 1.
From what I read, the SATA HDs have numbering
precedence over PATA HDs. When you included
SATA HDs in the system, the PATA (i.e. IDE) HD's
number got bumped higher.
What does "LDM" stand for?
Its only a problem now because I want to install a second
instance of XP Pro (to dual boot) and it doesn't see the
existing installation. I suspect because C is not the first
physical drive.
What do you mean by "doesn't see the existing installation"?
Do you mean that the installer doesn't include an ARC path
entry in boot.ini that points to the 1st XP?
In evaluating the correctness of the boot.ini entries,
it helps to know that most BIOSes have, in addition to
the device boot order, an ordered list that is the Hard
Drive Boot Order. This HD Boot Order is the ordered
list of HDs that defines "rdisk()" in the boot.ini file's listing
of OS paths. That is, "rdisk(0)" stands for the 1st HD in
the list, i.e. the HD at position 0. This is the HD whose
MBR gets control at boot time. "rdisk(1)" stands for
the next HD in the HD Boot Order, the one at position 1,
"rdisk(2)" stands for the HD at position 2, and "rdisk(3)"
stands for the HD at position 3.
If I simply move the SATA connector from 3 to 1 is that
likely to cause my current install of XP Pro to object or
would you expect it to carry on as usual?
I don't want to risk corrupting my current install so thought
I'd ask first.
The place to ask how to tell the installer in which partition
to put a 2nd WinXP is:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment
But expect a lot of partially right answers.
*TimDaniels*
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