I have one of those removable drive bays too, but mine will not allow me to run any drive as a master. experimenting with my removable drive bay in this fashion, trying to swap boot drives, is how I lost my 80 GB drive recently. That is why I went to the Trios card. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer! Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and a mother board. Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far better solution than the trios. I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you want or don't want based on which drive and os you want. For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and insert the Mandrake drive, in the slot and back up and running in Linux in a minute or two. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin@Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer! > Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot: > http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm > I have one of these cards. > It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate. > It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the > computer. > You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started. > You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives. > I really like it. > Glenn. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom at bredband.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM > Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer! > > > Hi to the list. > I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with > 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig. > I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro > on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now > trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but > Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring > for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after > installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether > and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it > or how should i go about? > Thanks for any help! > -- > /Krister > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
