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Old October 6th 04, 06:12 PM
deodiaus
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Default 2 HDs with WinME

Ok, what I want to do is have 2 copies of WinME on two different HDs
on two different ribbon cables (each made the master).
I want to be able to boot each one, but don't know how to use Ranish
Partition Manager to be able do this.
I heard that I can buy a hardware switch which controls the cable
switch option, but then I also think I can do this with GRUB and hide
the Primary partion of the WimME which I don't want.
Does anyone have more detailed info on how to do this?
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Old October 6th 04, 09:14 PM
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Silly question - have you RTFM'd Ranish??


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"deodiaus" wrote in message
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Ok, what I want to do is have 2 copies of WinME on two different HDs
on two different ribbon cables (each made the master).
I want to be able to boot each one, but don't know how to use Ranish
Partition Manager to be able do this.
I heard that I can buy a hardware switch which controls the cable
switch option, but then I also think I can do this with GRUB and hide
the Primary partion of the WimME which I don't want.
Does anyone have more detailed info on how to do this?



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Old October 6th 04, 10:07 PM
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Many of the newer BIOSes allow you to change the boot drive.

"deodiaus" wrote in message
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Ok, what I want to do is have 2 copies of WinME on two different HDs
on two different ribbon cables (each made the master).
I want to be able to boot each one, but don't know how to use Ranish
Partition Manager to be able do this.
I heard that I can buy a hardware switch which controls the cable
switch option, but then I also think I can do this with GRUB and hide
the Primary partion of the WimME which I don't want.
Does anyone have more detailed info on how to do this?



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Old October 7th 04, 08:07 PM
deodiaus
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I decided to use BootItNG.
I was able to boot from the first HD with ME just fine. When I
selected the second HD ME, startup failed with an error in GDI.EXE
When I am booting from the second HD, I think I somehow have to hide
the first installation of ME?
I have read the manuals, but I must admit that some of this stuff is
new and confusing.
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Old October 7th 04, 08:09 PM
deodiaus
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I was able to use Ranish PM to restore a previously info, so I am
getting up to speed with it. I have read the docs, but don't know if
it will do what I want.
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Old October 7th 04, 09:01 PM
Noel Paton
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Whatever partition manager you use, Win ME MUST get the impression that it's
booting from drive C: - that means that you have to hide any partition that
may take precedence in the order.

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"deodiaus" wrote in message
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I decided to use BootItNG.
I was able to boot from the first HD with ME just fine. When I
selected the second HD ME, startup failed with an error in GDI.EXE
When I am booting from the second HD, I think I somehow have to hide
the first installation of ME?
I have read the manuals, but I must admit that some of this stuff is
new and confusing.



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Old October 8th 04, 05:31 PM
deodiaus
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I had another problem in that I had EZ-BIOS loaded. I found someone
else talking about how this mess up his computer, so I removed that
using fdisk /mbr

Now I have 2 HD, each with WinME, but still get this problem with a
fatal error in GDI.exe now when I chose to load with the first HD.
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Old October 8th 04, 05:36 PM
deodiaus
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I think the problem might be due to the auto setting of the HDs (which
drive is C:, d and the OS not finding the right OS because it is no
longer in the place where it once was.
Ironically now, the second WinME loads fine if I swap the boot order
in the BIOS?
It seems as if I have to write some DOS program which would reset the
bios on the boot (off a floppy). Does anyone know where I could find
such a beast?
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Old October 9th 04, 09:15 AM
Muhammad-Ali Clay
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"deodiaus" wrote:

I decided to use BootItNG.
I was able to boot from the first HD with ME just fine. When I
selected the second HD ME, startup failed with an error in GDI.EXE
When I am booting from the second HD, I think I somehow have to hide
the first installation of ME?
I have read the manuals, but I must admit that some of this stuff is
new and confusing.

TRY modifying the boot.ini or bootlog.txt or whatever.
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Old October 9th 04, 02:59 PM
deodiaus
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I tried changing the boot.ini to reference d:
as well as autoexec.bat to refer to the newly mapped driver letter.
 




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