Via chipsets & 2k hiding drives in Bios
I can not hide either of my 2 hard drives in the bios because of M$'s incompatability with Via chipsets. I have 2k w/SP2 installed on a Fat32 partition using a Epox 8-KTA M/B. I have 2 bootable drives (or at least that is what I'm tring to have in 2k but not much sucess) and disabling the drive in the bios doesn't ...
I can not hide either of my 2 hard drives in the bios because of M$'s incompatability with Via chipsets.
I have 2k w/SP2 installed on a Fat32 partition using a Epox 8-KTA M/B.
I have 2 bootable drives (or at least that is what I'm tring to have in 2k but not much sucess) and disabling the drive in the bios doesn't disable (or hide) it in the O/S!
M$ question #272586 deals with the issue but 2 out of the 3 keys are diffwerent than what M$ lists.
I tried the mod anyway with the other keys but it doesn't work.
Anyone else run into this?
I have the latest bios from Epox.
I have 2k w/SP2 installed on a Fat32 partition using a Epox 8-KTA M/B.
I have 2 bootable drives (or at least that is what I'm tring to have in 2k but not much sucess) and disabling the drive in the bios doesn't disable (or hide) it in the O/S!
M$ question #272586 deals with the issue but 2 out of the 3 keys are diffwerent than what M$ lists.
I tried the mod anyway with the other keys but it doesn't work.
Anyone else run into this?
I have the latest bios from Epox.
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Then why is there a option to hide a drive if the O/S can see it anyway?
Again I have always been able to hide drives with 98SE and ME!
Are you talking about NT and 2k?
Again I have always been able to hide drives with 98SE and ME!
Are you talking about NT and 2k?
I have seen what Videobruce is saying, but then again Xiven is correct; DOS (which all the 9x OSs ran on until ME, and that had its own issues) asked the BIOS for its info whereas NT based OSs didn't. Are there flukes or mitigating circumstances that might have an NT OS not read a drive that's disabled in the BIOS? Probably, but overall it's been the way that Xiven (and I) mentioned. Now if you had an outboard controller, it *might* let you do what you are looking for depending on how it's setup.
So, what exactly are you trying to do? You just want to keep the spare in there and do periodic backups of your image? Can't you just use a removable chassis for your backup drive and do it that way? Then, you just shut down the PC and take out the drive when it's not needed, and put it back in and image it when you want to back up the master.
So, what exactly are you trying to do? You just want to keep the spare in there and do periodic backups of your image? Can't you just use a removable chassis for your backup drive and do it that way? Then, you just shut down the PC and take out the drive when it's not needed, and put it back in and image it when you want to back up the master.
Interesting on the NT/2k not asking the bios on what drives are hidden or not. I did not know that and another surprise with 2k. (I love surprises........)
To answer your question just what I am doing, all alone I have had 2 bootable drives both partitioned. The 2nd drive was a backup (active partition) in case my main drive's active partition went down (virus, corupt system file etc.) I have a DPDT toggle switch connected to both drives through a cut down ATA cable connector (only 6 holes used for the master/slave jumper positions). Both drives are visable since the 2nd partition has backup data on them, which is the way I want it. No drive swaping or removing.
I really don't want to have a dual booting single drive since you are dealing with one physical drive. I like the separate drive setup. It makes it easy to fix things since you can access system files without using DOS which I admit I'm not good at.
I hope that all makes sense.
I hope I don't have to go without the 2nd bootable drive idea just because of running 2k. 2k has been very bullit proof for me.
To answer your question just what I am doing, all alone I have had 2 bootable drives both partitioned. The 2nd drive was a backup (active partition) in case my main drive's active partition went down (virus, corupt system file etc.) I have a DPDT toggle switch connected to both drives through a cut down ATA cable connector (only 6 holes used for the master/slave jumper positions). Both drives are visable since the 2nd partition has backup data on them, which is the way I want it. No drive swaping or removing.
I really don't want to have a dual booting single drive since you are dealing with one physical drive. I like the separate drive setup. It makes it easy to fix things since you can access system files without using DOS which I admit I'm not good at.
I hope that all makes sense.
I hope I don't have to go without the 2nd bootable drive idea just because of running 2k. 2k has been very bullit proof for me.
