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siliconman
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May 1st, 2008 09:00
Dimension 8200 BIOS Hard Drive Boot Sequence
I have a Dimension 8200 with A09 BIOS running with XP-SP3 with two internal EIDE Western Digital hard drives on the same bus cable. I have the HD on the end connector set to the Master and the HD on the center connector set to Slave.
I use Casper 4.0 to clone/backup my C drive (on the Master) onto the H drive (on the Slave). The H drive is a fully bootable drive. My H drive is recognized and the Casper cloning works fine.
In AO9 BIOS Boot Sequence, it does not list the H drive as a selectable drive to boot from. Is the a shortcoming of the A09 BIOS or do I have something cabled incorrectly?
Thanks in advance for feedback.
bcd308ee24c7401
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Posted May 1st, 2008 12:00
You can not boot from the second hard drive
siliconman
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Posted May 1st, 2008 12:00
I put both disk's jumper on Cable Select and the H drive still does not show up in the Boot Sequence of Bios. Only the floppy, 1 hard drive, and the CD-Rom show up.
bcd308ee24c7401
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Posted May 1st, 2008 11:00
Both drives should be set to CABLE SELECT (CS)
Not master and slave