How to prevent w2k to shutt down my "ide-scsi" HD's. Also question about dual booting!

[DeViSoR]

First question about dual booting, I have searched the forum for this problem but could not find any thing on it. Here is what I did!

I have win98se installed on my ata100 highpoint drivers, so when i desided to install w2k I just disabled the highpoint ship in my bios. I did not want w2k to create a dual boot system for me, as I just wanted to test w2k. After installing w2k, the driver letters was listed like this

c:w98se
d:w2k
e:
f:
--> M:

I loaded up bootmagic, and it found w2k at d:, when restarted I shoose w2k boot, but it would not load up the os, I just got a error. Something like winnt error or something (should have written it down). I can boot to w2k if I shange the boot order in bios, but this is a hassle to do everytime I want to change os.

What I'm I doing wrong? is there other programs that works better then bootmagic (have the version from partitionmagic 6).

Now to the HD problem!

When I restart the computer in w2k, w2k shuts down my two ide ata100 drivers, that are connected to the highpoint chip (abit ka7-100). I have looked in powersave, and in the hd option, I don't find anywhere I can make w2k to stop doing that.

help!

 

[igiveup]

If not using Linux you should have just let 2000 detect the partition and give you an option. When you are done you can just set it to boot into 98 automatically and leave a time of 0 for the bootup wait. That doesn't help much now though.

Question: why so many partitions? Know that windows 2000 will try to place a swapfile on each one so you might want to check to make sure that is disabled.

As far as win 2000 and the HD's go, are you saying the drives physically spin down and stop or the drivers are disabled?

Please write down the error you get at bootup and post back .

 

[DeViSoR]

The reason for so many partition is because I have 3 hd's with a total of 70gb. Two of the driver letters are for my cd'roms. The reason I did not do the w2k instal so it could create a dual boot for me was that I was not sure (and stil not) if I want to continue using w2k.

The two drivers that are on the highpoint controller will spin down and stop when I restart w2k. So it has to use time to do this and during boot up, the hd's need to "powerup" again.

will update with the error I get when I come home from work.

 

[obenton]

Boot problem likely connected to w2k drive letter change from what it was at install. Installed on C:, and now you're trying to start it on D:, which is a no-go. Much simpler to set it up as a dual boot - installed on D: and run on D:. If, later, you want to get rid of w2k and dual boot, from a DOS floppy just run "sys C:", and C: drive will once again boot directly into win98.

 

[LeBlatt]

Agree with obenton on the drive letter change issue.
See if you can have the option to swap drive letters in bootmagic when booting 2k, so that D is C and vice-versa. Remember that most programs wont work if installed under one OS and tried to run from the other.

Another option is to make C hidden (still in bootmagic) when you boot 2k, so that D becomes C. The drawback is that you cant use the 98 disk when in 2k. I have used this one.

On keeping 2k, I would advice to fully SWITCH to it unless you have key apps/hardware that are not supported.

 

[DeViSoR]

Hmm I will try that hidding the C: drive, it only contains the w98s os, so no loss there. I'm thinking about going over to w2k but I want to make sure that my aps works well there first. Thx for the tip!

The error message that I get is:

Invalid boot.ini file
Booting from C:\winnt\
ntdetect failed


Any idia about making w2k to stop powering down my ata100 disk on the highpoint controler?