scsi on ide nt4 system drive assignment problem

ppaulson

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Oct 31, 2002
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i have an abit kt7, lsiu160, atlas 10k 3, and a quantum 15 gig ide drive. i just got the scsi and installed nt on it, previously i used the ide. i am able to boot off the scsi. I wanted to copy files over from the ide drive so i connected it back on primary ide. scsi still boots however nt says the ide boot partition is c: and the scsi is d. how do i get the scsi drive to be c? nt disk admin does not do it.

i don't want to reformat the ide drive because i still want to use it until i have time to install all the stuff on the scsi drive. i hoped the bios setting saying to boot off scsi would take care of things (ie when i want ide, set boot in bios to be ide. likewise for scsi)
 

stranger707

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You can't get there from here. All BIOSs will assign the IDE drive as the C: drive. You just can't get around that. The motherboard BIOS loads first, and then the SCSI loads after. About the only way to do it might be to boot into DOS from a floppy and then copy the files using the xcopy command from one drive to the other. Or find another computer that is all IDE and copy the files to a CD. Good luck!
 

Bovinicus

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There should be an option in your BIOS called first boot device or primary boot device; it should be something along those lines. You can change that to SCSI on a lot of motherboards. I believe the option is available on that motherboard. Go take a look.
 

DimZiE

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the only way i could assign C: to my SCSI drive is by using Partition Magic... edit: ( with the IDE drive plug on pri master )
 

ppaulson

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Oct 31, 2002
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yep, seems the ide has to be c drive. i tried putting it on the 2ndary channel with nothing on the primary and it still takes it as the c drive. shame they didn't mention it in this http://scsi.radified.com/ where they advise to go scsi and ide.