Thanks to you all for the support.
Kept thinking about the siig driver and finally took my norton ghost
and made a copy of the disk that had the siig driver on it. That
worked for me. Now to switch back and forth between hard drives I
can
go into cmos setup-boot and make the choice.
I am a retired welder 77yrs and kind of slow with this stuff. Now if I
can figure out how to
install win 98 with the siig driver I'll try that next.
Thanks again for the input.
Arthur Allen
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I do not recommend this, but what you could try is pretty simple,
and
risky.
first, make sure you have good backup of everything, just in case.
This is very very important!
Now, make the change in BIOS, boot from SCSI before onboard
IDE, power
down system and physically switch HDDs, put the one from
onboard IDE
to siig card, and the one from siig card to onboard IDE.
power up, and prey, it may work (windows may ask for reboot few
times). If it doesn't, you will have to reinstall windows (if you
really want to boot from siig card), during first boot from XP CD, as
soon as you see any display, press F6, and keep doing it, unless
you
could see the message "Press F6 if you have ..." disappear (this
keep
press F6 may sound overkill, but just make sure you don't miss it),
then you should be asked to press "S", once you press S, you will
get
a screen to give you some instruction, and press "S" again, then
insert the siig driver disk into floppy drive and press "enter". and
just select the right driver and following the on screen instructions.
if your siig card didn't have a driver disk on floppy, you will have
to make one, most of them (IDE controller cards) have a program to
make such disk.
Jun Qian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:36 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] siig controller
> Hi, I've been reading and learning from this list for over a year.
> Thank you. Now I have a question. I have a Dell 4400 bios A03 with
> two WD hard drives. OS -XP Yesterday I installed a Siig controller
> SC-Pe4B12. Installed ok, looks ok in Device manager. Have one hard
> drive on primary master on motherboard controller. Have second hard
> drive on primary master on Siig controller. Now XP is loading from
> the hard drive motherboard controller. I would like to learn how to
> load the OS from the hard drive on the Siig controller.
>
> This is what I've done so far. Went into the Dell cmos setup, Boot
> and changed the first hard drive to be the one on the Siig
> controller. That did not work for me. Got a big warning page. I see
> nothing in the Siig cmos that would help.
>
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