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Old December 2nd, 2008, 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by madjim View Post
When I dsconnect the C:\ drive and restart the computer it does not boot from the second drive.
You need to try switching the ribbon cable. Most drives are nowadays jumpered "cable select". You have the C:\ on the primary master and the backup drive on the slave of the primary. You can also select to boot from primary slave in bios, but moving the cable is probably less worrisome and easier.
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