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Boot Magic wont recognize my backup hd?

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by martinitek May 24, 2001 last reply Jul 2, 2002 1 view

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I have installed Boot Magic on my first hd (win98) And my second hd (also win98) THe boot manager work's well, i can boot from both. The PROBLEM is that my 2 hd with win98 (the 1st on is for me the 2nd one for my friend) will not see my 3rd hd (witch i want to use ask File backups and image backups). I have autodetected them they are all there but when i boot either one and go into my computer i cannot see the backup HD. I can however see the second disk when i boot with the 1st and vice versa...

Your help is appreciated!

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by grump May 24, 2001

Three Hard drive !
Did you partition and format the 3rd drive?
CMOS has detected the HD but your operating system won't utilize it till it is partitoned.

Just a thought!

Grump

by martinitek May 25, 2001

Thank's but had already verified that! THank's anyhow!

by macgyver.hicks May 24, 2001

Hi Virtual_Tek,
It appears that there may not be a problem. Boot Magic is designed to just boot between operating systems. The drives with OS's should not see each other and just the bootable drive and the "spare" drive should be all that is seeninside of Windows. Just check to make sure that the other drive (most
likely the D: drive) is the spare and not the
other bootable drive.
Response #1 has a good idea if this is not the case. As well, Boot Magic, by default, makes other bootabledrives invisible to the drive that is currently working. If you changed this, I suggest that you change it back by opening the Boot Magic configuration,
click on Properties. Select the Visible Partition tab and DESELECT override default,
then save and exit.
I use Boot Magic and Partition Magic together
for a couple of my computers for them to be multi-boot systems.
I wish you well.

by martinitek Jul 2, 2002

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by elliotal May 25, 2001

From what I can gather you have a 3 hdd system with 2 drives running Win98 and the third being a common back up source. The issue seems to be taht 1 Win98 can see the backup and the other can`t but both Win 98s can see each other. Assuming this is correct then try the following:

1. You probably have the 2 Win98s on the same IDE cable & the backup on the other IDE cable. Check Device Manager in the Win98 that CANNOT see teh backup drive and see if there is a conflict on the secondary IDE controller. Also check the performance tab for ms-dos compatability mode errors etc....

2. If you have the ms-dos compatability error or something similar then rename your autoexec.bat and config.sys files and reboot.

3. If you have a conflict see if it`s an actual hardware conflict in which case you can re-adjust to solve teh problem or if it`s a software problem with the IDE driver in Windows that is showing as a conflict. If this is teh case post the exact error here and I`ll see if I can track it down for you.

ALAN.