>As far as I know, 95 MUST be on the C drive. IE: if you want to have dual boot, the master drive should be bootable in 95 (this means that the system files on C drive must be 95).
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>Anyway, you may want to use only the big drive. Using 2 drives makes both drives slower. When there's a big difference between the 2 drives, the difference in performance is higher for the bigger one...
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Actually, as long as the two drives are on separate IDE channels, they shouldn't interfere with each other. it is true, though that given two drives with significantly different transfer modes, both drives will be forces to use the best transfer mode supported by both drives - ie if you have a Mode 4 and a Mode 1 drive on one channel, they'll both operate in Mode 1. if they're on separate channels, then the Mode 4 drive will run in Mode 4 and the Mode 1 drive in Mode 1.
There are also non-issues of performance involved here, specifically related to UDMA implementations. The speed of transfer between the disk's on-board controller and the motherboard (what is determined by Mode selection) is not the limiting factor in most cases; Mode 4 will transfer data at about 16MB/sec peak, while UDMA can support rates up to 33MB/sec, it's true, but the rate that the data moves on and off the platters is the limiting factor, and in the case of most IDE drives, that's well under 10MB/sec (a few high-end SCSI drives push 14-15MB/sec). Since IDE only permits one active devioce per channel at a time, there's virtually no risk of bandwidth saturation on IDE channels, unlike SCSI, which supports command queueing and disconnect/reconnect, allowing multiple active devices at the same time to compete actively for bandwidth...
Just mu $.02
>Vlad
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>>I'm trying to install a 11/5 Gb hard drive to work with NT.
>>My old drive is a 1.2 Gb Quantum Fireball drive running Windows 95.
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>>I configured my 11.5 Maxtor drive to be the master and my old 1.2 Gb drive to be the slave. This way, "supposedly" when I complete my NT installation, I should be able to have a dual boot, NT or 95.
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>>I partitionned and formatted my new MAXTOR 11.5 drive using the MAXBLAST software (comes with my new drive. This disk manager also makes changes to the BIOS. I do get the full size of the drive, with partitions no greater that 2.1 Gb.
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>>My next step is to install Windows NT. When I pass the first part of the NT installation, (which is long process of copying the files to the hard drive), the system/installation wants to reboot. When it reboot I get a choice of Windows 95 or Windows NT/upgrade. This still makes sense to me. At this point I still want to continue my NT installation, so I select NT upgrade. After this point the system halts saying NON BOOTABLE DEVICE and it displays me a list of approx. 25-30 NT system files which it has a problem with, and I cannot continue. I've repeated the process several times, and still the same thing.
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>>Is there something I forgot to do, or is the installation for NT a little more tricky for use with a drive bigger than 8.4 Gb?
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>>I would appreciate any help!!!
>>John Vlahos
