I don't install odd boot sequences, so I'm not 100% sure I am correctly
describing this.
In my experience, if you set the bios boot order in cmos to be scsi first,
(then others like C:, A:, CDROM) and you set your scsi controller correctly,
(I let mine scan all scsi devices for a bootable drive.  You may want to
point specifically to the device ID that you want to boot.  It does not have
to be zero.) the scsi disk drive will boot.  It does not have to be drive C:

Now, if you have a boot record on your ide hard disk in NTFS, the only way I
know to remove it in win2000 or XP is to format the drive.  There is no
active partition setting under NTFS.

This worked fine for me the two instances where I ended up with servers
built up from spares.  The NT / win2000 version booted up from drive D:
which was scsi, and the ide drive C: was only used for extra storage and
convenience.

As for ide drive location, I prefer putting them on different channels, but
the performance difference would be too small to notice because you have a
scsi bus.  If you must do simultaneous disk accesses, you should attempt to
arrange it so at least one of the accesses is always on the scsi bus.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Loomis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:07 AM

Hi Peter and others,
After much messing I finally was able to get access to the two drives and
move the required data onto another in another machine via network.
I would like to put these two 40GB drives into my main machine but I am
somewhat confused and concerned about playing hell after my last experience.
Here is what I have and what I want to do. I currently run all SCSI, 3 UW
hard drives, CD, CDRW. I boot from SCSI. In years past I recall that if I
add a IDE drive to this it wants to become the boot device no matter what
the BIOS says. How can I as you said, "adjust" the active partition using
NTFS on XP and or 2K when FDISK is unworkable in DOS? By adjust I assume and
hope you mean make it "not active". Also, What performs better, one drive on
each channel or two set as master and slave?

Thanks,
Brad Loomis

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