I have a problem you may , hopefully,be able to help me with. I have two hard drives one with 40 gigabytes of storage and the second 120. I have partitioned both drives and put windows XP on the first drive in a partition alongside the original Windows 98 partition. On the second drive I have put Linux. Both new partitions are outside the eight gigabyte boundary. However, my BIOS is fully updated and LBA compliant, as are the hard drives.
Neither of the two new operating systems are bootable without using an emergency start-up disk for that system. The second hard drive was configured as a slave with the jumper. On entering the Award BIOS standard CMOS page, the “primary slave” entry states “none”. I am assuming , possibly incorrectly, that this should hold data about my new hard drive and that this is part of a problem, but cannot see a way to enter any data about the hard drive manually. On the other hand, I must say that the other partitions on the second drive (the one which is not detected), which contain programmes and data, work very well. I’m using either Boot Magic or the Linux boot manager to attempt to boot to the other operating systems (without any success!). Any ideas would be gratefully received.
