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Hope I made myself clear (which I doubt...)

Thanks!

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Colin
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On ASUS and MicroStar boards, which I'm most familiar with, there's and
option in BIOS for which HD to boot from, or even in which sequence you
want to boot from different HD's etc

On ASUS boards there's a separate option for this in the menu, on
Microstar this option is under the regular BIOS settings, ......of
course I can't remember the exact place right now and I don't have a
computer with a Microstar board handy, but in short, most MoBo's from
the past couple of years have some sort of option to set the boot
sequence

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

"The Pits"    http://www.theuspits.com/

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels"
--Groucho Marx--

Most all computers except some Might now have a way to pick the device you
boot from, but still it might not work if the hardware doesnt work exactly
right...  95% of all pc's need the boot partitions of the "Master" jumpered
drive to be on IDE cable 1 too boot.  Like I said new stuff all the time,
some boards might but most wont allow ya to change this...  So Clone the new
drive 1st by connecting it as a slave drive.  this is doen with Drive Copy,
or Ghost.  then you have to, (usually I do anyway) is change the jumpers on
the 2 drives and physical location if they are not on the same IDE cable,
then boot off the new drive.

if you do like I did most of the time, I fdisk the drive (new) and made 2
partitions on it, so now when I changed jumpers, I had to also do this step
before the drive was bootable.  boot with floppy, run fdisk on new drive and
tell it to set active partition...  It wouldnt let you do this when the
drive was a slave drive trust me.  But if you used GHOST or another clone
util then this step is not needed or anything, unless the computer says
there is no boot device found, then check to see that a active partition has
been set.

Hope that dont confuse ya, but you can buy Norton Utils 2002 from
http://www.eastoutlet.com/ for 9 or 12 dollars (oem) and it has ghost on it,
and it IS easy enough to use.  of course the site is down at the moment
apparently...

Good luck
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Thanks, PB, but listening to Goy's advice I went a-huntin' in cmos, and sure
enough my (American Megatrends) BIOS/CMOS had an option to check IDE 2 (not
1) after checking the floppy on startup. I gave it a go and it worked! The
new HDD is not C, and I'm now doing the VERY long process of copying all
stuff over.

 Thanks so much for the reply!

Btw Colin, forgot to ask, how did you celebrate the 17th ? :-)

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--