2 questions about 2 hard-drives and 2 OSes

[Pyramix]

Question 1:
I have two hard-drives on an onbaord raid chip (Promise chip of Asus A7V133). But they are both sharing the same DMA. How can I change that? Or do I need to change it at all?

Question 2:
I dual boot with 98se and XP. There are 6 partitions on my two drives. Now, the recycle bin in both the OSes is doing weird stuff. It seems that the two OSes (and the 6 drives) are sharing the recycle bin. I kept seeing the bin under both the OSes as full. They had the same stuff. After a few boots in each OS, now the recycle bin does not contain anything. Well, it still appears full in both the OSes, but when I open it, I don't see anything. I emptied the recycle bin in XP (and then it appeared empty). When I logged in 98se, I still see the recycle bin as full and yet there is nothing in there. When I tried to empty the recycle bin, it asked me if I was sure about deleting the 198 items in there. But I don't see anything in there. When I open the bin, it says 0 objects, 0 bytes in the status bar. What do you guys make of this? I am asking because I might want to restore some of those. And this could be a problem in the future as well.

Is there anybody who dual boots two Windows operating systems who's experiencing this?

 

[Pyramix]

bump

 

[Pyramix]

nobody knows?

 

[Pyramix]

what's going on?

 

[Pyramix]

 

[Pyramix]

you have got to be kidding me.....nobody can answer my questions....

 

[Pyramix]

blah

 

[Pyramix]

am i being boycotted or something?

 

[Yezzy]

Im not sure about the raid setup but wondows for some up reason spreads all the files in the recycle across all your drives so you have to right click/properties and unclick one setting for all drives and click configure each drive select the one you it to go to and then go delete all the recycle bin icons in the drive there hidden as well. It worked for me so it should work for you.

 

[Pyramix]

cool, thanks, yezzy

 

[Bovinicus]

As long as your RAID setup it performing pretty well, I wouldn't worry about it. Also, I used to have a similar problem with my recycling bin. I wasn't even dual booting. Sometimes the full icon would be displayed when there was nothing in it. I don't understand, but it is a very minor nuisance. I wouldn't worry about it. =)

 

[Pyramix]

aah, there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding....

i don't have a raid set-up. my hard-drives are connected to the raid chip, but that's about it. they are still two separate hard-drives. not connected.