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No, nothing to do with certain posters on here
I just put a new h/d and DVDRW in my old 'puter and have realised that I
have set it up with the DVD as Primary master (nothing on slave), and the
harddrives as secondary master & slave.
Does this matter? i.e Should I move the harddrives to be on the primary
circuit or the C drive as primary master, E drive as primary slave and D
drive (DVD) as secondary master? Or any other permutation??
Thanks for any advice.

PS: running XP home, all service packs/upgrades etc

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El Duderino wrote:

> No, nothing to do with certain posters on here
> I just put a new h/d and DVDRW in my old 'puter and have realised that I
> have set it up with the DVD as Primary master (nothing on slave), and the
> harddrives as secondary master & slave.
> Does this matter? i.e Should I move the harddrives to be on the primary
> circuit or the C drive as primary master, E drive as primary slave and D
> drive (DVD) as secondary master? Or any other permutation??
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> PS: running XP home, all service packs/upgrades etc
>
With not-too-outdated mainboards (manuf. date >199 most probably there is
no difference. Just be sure you use a 80wire cable for the harddrives, and
look for udma modes when the bios summary screen appears, to be sure. You
can try to "freeze" that screen with ctrl-break, but it will require some
tries.
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El Duderino wrote:
> No, nothing to do with certain posters on here
> I just put a new h/d and DVDRW in my old 'puter and have realised that I
> have set it up with the DVD as Primary master (nothing on slave), and the
> harddrives as secondary master & slave.
> Does this matter? i.e Should I move the harddrives to be on the primary
> circuit or the C drive as primary master, E drive as primary slave and D
> drive (DVD) as secondary master? Or any other permutation??
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> PS: running XP home, all service packs/upgrades etc
>

It should not matter. The computer boots off the hard drive, with
the bios looking for the boot sector on the boot partition, which
is Drive C, regardless of where it is located. By default, Drive
D should be the slave hard drive.

To be safe, in the event that Drive D, the slave hard drive, was
not properly configured as an extended hard drive, put Drive C
as the Master on the primary controller with Drive D as the slave
on the primary controller. The DVD drive can be Master on the
secondary controller and it should show up as Drive E.