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New Messageusing a HD along with the built in DOC (modified 0 times) thesauce98
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Here's my setup: WebPlayer with win98 image from i-hacked.com stored on the DOC. I also have a normal 3.5 HD connected to the 2.5 with a converter (because of my lack of laptop hard drives. This part still works fine, i used the HD to install the image on the DOC). I'm trying to access the HD in windows, although I'm running windows off the DOC. If I mess with the IDE settings in the BIOS it just boots off the HD but I want to boot off the DOC and be able to access the HD using windows. Any ideas? I heard that the webplayer might only have 1 IDE channel so it won't let me use both, but I don't know for sure. Any info would be appreciated.
06-02-2002 20:54:21

New MessageRE:using a HD along with the built in DOC (modified 0 times) jsspss21
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I'm using an IBM laptop HD. I've found that the HD must be jumpered as a slave in order for it to work as a second drive when booting from the DOC. When I have it set as a slave, it is NOT recognized by the BIOS, but Windows on the DOC sees it. When I have the HD set as master, it boots to dos (from the HD).
06-02-2002 22:08:27

New MessageRE:using a HD along with the built in DOC (modified 0 times) zmoz
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I can boot to the DOC and see my hard drive with the hard drive set as master and in the bios primary IDE is set to "none"
06-02-2002 23:26:37

New MessageRE:using a HD along with the built in DOC (modified 0 times) jpe_dty
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I found that I could only see the HD when booting from the doc if the Cyrix UDMA drivers are installed. The standard windows ones won't see the HD if the bios is set to NONE.
06-03-2002 10:03:05

New MessageRE:using a HD along with the built in DOC (modified 0 times) booboo
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DOC works this way: when booting up, it looks for a bootable C: hard drive IN THE BIOS configuration, and will install itself as the boot drive only if there aren't any.

Thus, in principle, it is not possible (except maybe patching the DOC firmware) to boot from DOC when having an HD properly configured as C: drive.

However, as modern operating systems handle the drives on their own instead of using the BIOS, Windows or Linux will indeed recognize an use a drive that is NOT configured in the BIOS.

I am not sure if having a single drive in a system configured as slave is good, but just in case I would do the following: connect your HD as MASTER, no slave present. Then go to the BIOS and set all HDs to "None". This way, the system will boot from DOC, but the OS will see the drive with no problems.

This information is 100% tested for Linux. I believe it is true too for Windows according to what the original poster said.

06-03-2002 12:53:04

New MessageRE:using a HD along with the built in DOC (modified 0 times) thesauce98
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Thanks all, I got it to work with a little tinkering of the bios settings. Now I can finally use my USB ethernet because I needed a way to get the drivers on there!
06-03-2002 18:36:25

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