From: Rob Bell (rbell1NOSPAM_at_csc.com)
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 08:46:38 EST
I have a 770 (9548-30U) that has a 4.0GB main hard drive running NT4. I
also have several additional hard drives that I use in the UltraBay with
the adapter. With the BIOS startup options I can easily choose to boot
>from the 2nd HD and therefore launch another O/S. That is, until I
encountered NT 5.0 Beta2. Since my main HD is NTFS4, the NT 5 beta,
when booted, did a 'seek and destroy' and converted the NTFS4 partition
to NTFS5. For any of you who don't know, NTFS5 and NTFS4 are NOT
compatible. Hence, my main O/S wouldn't boot. I got my system
recovered after several hours of copying files and reformatting.
What this means is that I can't boot my NT5 HD without incapacitating my
NT4 installation. If I could somehow remove the main HD and boot to the
2nd drive then there would be no chance that NT5 would destroy my NT4
partition. Does anyone know how to set up the 770 to boot the 2nd HD
WITHOUT the primary HD installed? When I try this I get an IBM error
screen immediately and it does not boot. Is there another BIOS option I
don't know about that tells the system not to look for the primary HD?
Thanks for any help!
Rob
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Rob Bell
Senior Consultant, CPD Professional
CSC Consulting, Minneapolis, MN
rob.bell_at_nospam@csc.com
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