Adding second drive makes boot drive1???!!!???

[jake59]

This is the strangest problem that is screwing me up on this machine.

It is a dual core intel box with 1gb mem. I have an ide boot drive that is multi boot partitioned.

When a second drive is added, the second drive becomes drive0 and the boot drive become drive1.

This screws up bootmagic for multiboot.

The bios has the boot drive correct as drive0, but when in XP the boot drive becomes drive1 and the newly added second drive as drive0.

Partition magic also has the boot drive as drive1.

Any ideas anyone?????

Thanks,

Jake

 

[bsa2000]

Same problem here.
2-IDEs and SATA with Bootmagic.
Windows changes SATA to HD 2 when addind the IDE drives.
Any solutions found? I using WD raptor with three XP partitions. Wone for work, one for graphics, video, sound edits, and one lean for games. I am considering removing the two IDE drives and replacing with a new single SATA drive. Will that fix the drive number swapping problem?
Many thanks for any hepl and advice. I have been using partition magic 8 and boot majic for years on many systems. Never ran into this before.
PS. Note New ASUS A8V motherboard with VIA 800 chipset.

 

[wahnula]

Please do everyone a favor before you post. Read the previous posts.

<OT>jake59, welcome to the forum. You need to do everyone a favor and lose the attitude. Your general demeanor, despite some of our best members trying to help, is chip-on-the-shoulder. I'm not trying to start a problem, rather prevent one and welcome a new member.

That's not how we treat each other here. We are respectful, grateful, and if someone doesn't understand your problem (created by your unusual setup) then perhaps you need to be a little more patient with the respondents.</OT>

bsa2000, welcome to the forum. It is always best to start a new topic for a new problem. It's easier for us to follow your progress if it's not tacked on to another problem.

Tony

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