>>Currently i'm having 2 hard drives on my computer...
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>>The old one (1.1 mb) is primary hard disk and the second one is slave 4.3 mb divided in 2 partitions..
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>>I want to format the old one and want to boot from my second hard disk...
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>>I tried to change the bios option & set the booting sequence to the second one.. but it is showing No operating system found...
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>>One of my friends told me that this can be due to second hard disk is not having any active partition..
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>>I'm not familiar with all this stuff.. & I don't how to do the whole thing..
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>If your second hard drive does not have a primary partition (as opposed to an extended partition), it can't be made bootable easily, at least not using WIn9x.
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>In order to boot, you must have a primary partition marked as active, with the necessary loader files in place. In most cases, the BIOS will only allow a boot from the active primary partition on the first (master) IDE drive.
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>Your best bet is to back up everything, reformat and reinstall, replacing the files from backup after reinstalling the base operating system and any WinApps that rely on registry entries. If that's unpalatable, you can try using other utilties, or try to force things into place by hand, but half-hearted efforts will not relaibly produce a usable system.
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>The following steps will make the 4.3GB drive bootable, but will not adjust the registry or reinstall the operating system:
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>(1) make a bootable floppy with at least the SYS.COM and FDISK.EXE commands on it.
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>(2) rejumper the hard drives so that what is now the slave drive (the 4.3 GB drive) is the master, and the 1.1GB drive is the slave.
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>(3) boot from the boot floppy, and run FDISK. Use FDISK to set the Primary partition of the 4.3GB drive as active. Exit from FDISK.
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>(4) reboot the system from floppy. Enter the command SYS C: from the floppy disk. This should copy the boot loader and system files to the primary partition of the 4.3GB drive.
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>(5) remove the floppy and reboot. The system will now boot from the hard drive. This will not accomplish reinstalling Win9x, but will make the drive bootable.
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>I'd recommend picking up a copy of PowerQuest's Partition Magic v4.0, which has a number of utilties for adjusting partitions, managing the boot process and the like.
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>>can somebody pls tell me Any good utility for Managing Partitions or some other way to do it..
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>>I'm having p2 350 running win95..(both the hard disks are having lot of data)
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>>pls help..


thanks for ur detailed reply...

One main question..

Is it possible to make it bootable Without setting the jumper ??

(if i just set the option in bios to boot from it)

pls advs...