NT 4.0 Setup ( IDE Boot Drive )

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John Britton - 30 Oct 2003 15:35 GMT

When installing NT 4.0 Server on an x86 computer with (2)
IDE HDDs, how does Setup determine which drive is to be
used for installation?

Does it use the Primary Master, the Boot Device specified
in the motherboard BIOS or is some other technique used to
make this decision?

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Bjorn Landemoo - 30 Oct 2003 22:26 GMT

John

Normally, the Primary Master will be the boot device. If your BIOS has an
option to select boot device (usually disk C or disk D), the selected disk
will be used. This option essentially uses the selected disk as a primary
master, even if jumper are set to something else.

You can install NT on any of your disks, but the system partition (where a
few boot files are stored) will be on the boot device.

Best regards

Bjorn

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking

>When installing NT 4.0 Server on an x86 computer with (2)
>IDE HDDs, how does Setup determine which drive is to be
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>in the motherboard BIOS or is some other technique used to
>make this decision?

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