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Number   :  1598
Date     :  2002-02-15
Author   :  chasm49_40
Subject  :  xxcopy/logical block addressing and mbr
Size(KB) :  2


Hi all... as a newbie with xxcopy I have a very wild problem and 
questions..... have a pc put together last year.. its an amd 950 
on a epox motherboard with a 20 gig hard drive as master and an LS120 
drive as the salve ... ide 1 on ide 2 are 2 CD roms.. one aburner and 
the othger a plain cd rom drive. the OS is win me....when it was all 
installed for soem reason the bios picked up as logical block 
addressing and identiefed it as a 20 gig drive.... someway shape or 
formthe jumper for the ls120 that sets slave or master either fell 
out or whatever.. but was never there... I was in the process of 
making changes and removed the 120 drive ony to find that the machine 
would not boot and came up as no system boot form cd... putting the 
120 drive back on gave me the system again and boots and operates all 
perfectly.
now comes in xxcopy..... I think there is an improper mbr on 
the hard drive that results in not booting when the ls120 isnt 
there.. so I am going to remove the cd roms...temporarily and install 
another 20 gig all formatted etc on ide2 bus and use xxcopy to clone 
the old drive..... my question is concerning the logical block 
addressing... when this occurs will it mess up the data on the drive 
or simply nmake it a clone that will now boot alone? then I intend on 
fdisking the old drive and reformatting all without the 120 so that 
is becomes a bootable drive without the logical block addressing.... 
lol.. if any of you have followed my seemingly rambles here sure 
would ask for advise as the origianl 20 gig drive has tons of stuff 
cant afford to loose... school stuff of sons college graphics course 
plus programing etc.... take weeks to reinstall all of them if lost 
not to say the work he has done to date...begging for some advise and 
or help .... please....
have learned one thing..... it sure pays to double check 
things and not take it for granted.. and that is what I failed to do 
evidientily when setting the box all up... other than that the darn 
thing is a neat little speed demon working like a champ... but... 
cant make any changes to the drive setup right now.... so. will be 
watching an waiting..... Chuck... in Ok



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