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03-03-2005, 10:05 PM
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Ah thanks for the info. The strife I got into was B-A-D too.
This is why I have switched from multi-boot, and standardised on plug-in hard disks on two machines.
Drives are standard 3-1/2inch WD, Seagate, Maxtor, whatever I can pick up second hand.
The drive sits inside a plastic tray which slides into a rack mounted in an empty 5-1/4inch drive bay.
All my plug-in HD Drives are set for master to avoid probs with cable select. CDs and DVDs are all set as slaves, and needed reworking the IDE cables as well. Seems a foolproof method, and I've been running it for six months or so.
The secondary master drive bay is for an optional "data" HDD that has been very useful from time to time.
A warning if you use this method... I have noticed that often a user in Linux is unable to get write privileges on the hdc drive, but root will read/write/execute.
I've run SuSE, Mandrake, Xandros, Linspire, SJDS and MS Windows this way. Fedora 2 didn't want to know about hdc though.
You can also use the two racks in conjunction with Norton's Ghost boot floppy to copy partitions or complete disks from one drive to another without messing around with the covers and plugs.
Last edited by eagles-lair; 03-03-2005 at 10:06 PM.
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03-04-2005, 07:47 AM
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Does anyone know if USB plugin drives are any good. I know they are more expensive than internal IDE drives, but its an option I am looking at for multi booting.
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03-04-2005, 07:51 AM
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Well they have tonnes of space, so I recomennd it if you are gonna dual boot lots of os's.
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03-04-2005, 04:41 PM
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Quote:
Does anyone know if USB plugin drives are any good. I know they are more expensive than internal IDE drives, but its an option I am looking at for multi booting.
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reddazz I know very little about them, mainly because I don't have one (or any). A thought that springs to mind is that the BIOS would need to recognise them, would it not?
Or is it possible to boot off grub on primary master ide, and point from there towards the USB drive?
Don't know if that is feasible, if you could do that with rewriting a line in Grub.
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03-05-2005, 02:54 AM
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Most modern bioses should have the option to boot from USB hard drives. My pc is a few years old, but I am sure it has the option to boot from a usb device, so I assume its possible to install a boot loader on the usb drive, but I am just making assumptions here, I need to find more info.
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03-05-2005, 03:39 AM
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Reason I wondered is my 4 (or 5?) year old HP Vectra PIIs with Phoenix BIOS dated 1998 have the usual IDE, floppy and CD choices for booting, and also "bootable cards" - suggesting a USB plug memory device... so perhaps that would include USB pluggable real HDDs?
I remember Shane Brookes who developed 98lite, and 2000lite and rebadged/rebuilt them a bit later as litepc shows details of MS Windows98 "lite" running with considerably less than 64Mb footprint on a USB plug!
http://www.litepc.com/
While that was "that other OS", presumably the PC architecture is what controlls the capability 
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