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Number   :  252
Date     :  2001-06-21
Author   :  inventor84@a...
Subject  :  Re: Monday - would not boot with 2 C drives in computer
Size(KB) :  2


My computer is all scsi C is 2 gig and d is 9 gig external. I did a 
clone of c to d and all went well except nothing was recorded in my 
log file.

XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE /yy /Xwin386.swp /oaxxcopy.log

I have had a all scsi computer for 5 years with a 2940U card, all 50 
pin drives and yes I know how to boot from any drive by changing the 
information in the adaptec bios - 

I have no idea why the computer would not boot for one day, I shut it 
down several times and did a cold start and several times did restart.

Never would it boot past the win98 screen with the clouds.

Then I turned off the external scsi drive and it booted first time.

Next day after work I decided to work on the problem and there was no 
longer a problem it booted first time with the external scsi drive 
turned on.

Wed - today it booted first time with the external drive turned on.

I am learning C++ and reading about win98 code here and there and 
win98 is not a perfect code - I heard there are many C++ errors 
Microsoft left in the code.

thanks for xxcopy as I plan to use this to keep a safe copy of c drive
so when I mess up c drive I can be back in business in 10 mins.

First time ever I can say this.

Was xxcopy written with C++?

If so can we see the code?



thanks

inventor84
at
att
net





--- In xxcopy@y..., Barry Gershenfeld  wrote:
> You weren't clear if the SCSI drive was just something you 
> copied from or if it is in the system now. With two IDE 
> drives the answer is to change one from master to slave. But
> it looks like you have one SCSI and one IDE. In this case
> you should know that the SCSI controller usually has a BIOS
> of its own and will often get a chance to boot before the
> IDE. So get into the SCSI BIOS (does it say press control-A?)
> and see if there's an option to not boot that drive. If the 
> SCSI's built-in it may be an option in the computer's BIOS.
> 
> In the computer's BIOS under "advanced features" you should also
> find a "boot order" option in which SCSI is mentioned (along with
> CDROM and floppy...) You computer acts as though it is trying
> to boot the wrong drive (look at the lights?)
> 
> Barry
> 
> At 12:41 AM 6/19/01 -0000, you wrote:
> >Monday - would not boot with 2 C drives in computer
> >Drive I cloned is an external scsi drive 9 gig
> >so I turned it off and booted win98 ok
> >Anyown know how to fix this so I can boot my 9 gig D dvive turned 
on
> >with my C clone on it ?
> >thanks
> >inventor84



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