re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's Monday, March 13, 2006 at 6:04 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by andrew (11 messages posted) Right now the OS on the current Master drive is, as far as I can tell, completely messed up to the point where its impossible to fix, unless someone here knows how to fix it. Anyway, the problem is, I cant just reformat the current Master drive because I would lose some things that i'd like to save (pictures, text files, etc.) So, I figure if i can just make my spare Slave HDD the Master HDD, I can just install a fresh OS on it, and salvage whatever I can off the old one. On Monday, March 13, 2006 at 4:24 pm, bob wells wrote: >Andrew, > >Unless there is an operating System On the CURRENT Slave drive, I would not recommend >the change you're attempting. The Master Jumper tells windows which drive to look >for for the Boot sector. At the very least you'll have to go into the BIOS and change >the Boot Drive to #2 HDD. > >Post back with what you are trying to accomplish with this HDD switch. > > > Written in response to: re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (bob wells: Monday, March 13, 2006 at 4:24 pm) Responses to this message: re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (bob wells: Monday, March 13, 2006 at 10:29 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (andrew: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 1:10 pm) re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (Kiwi: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 2:52 pm) re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (andrew: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 5:55 pm) re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (bob wells: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 4:24 pm) re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (andrew: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 6:04 pm) re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (bob wells: Mon, Mar 13, 2006, 10:29 pm) re: Switching IDE Master and Slave HDD's (JasperT2: Tue, Mar 14, 2006, 5:33 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum