Topic: disabling slave drive in bios

[daveeb]

Hi all, is it possible to do the above, in the past if i have removed the slave drive, when i boot up, the boot sequence chugs along for several minutes looking for the slave drive that isnt there any more, so is it possible to "tell" the bios that the disk is no longer there and not to bother looking for it  :?

[Simon]

If I recall correctly, there is a 'disable' option, for each drive, in the boot sequence list, Dave.  The only way to find out for sure, in the absence of a proper techie, is to go into your BIOS and have a look.  

[daveeb]

Its late and i'm tired so look but dont touch will probably be my cunning plan tonight.  :roll:

[Sandra]

There should be an option to disable it Dave, it sometimes depends on the type of bios as to how much you can do with each section.
Ami is usually quite comprehensive but some of the phoenix ones are a bit limited  
When I do a clean install of a pc with two hard drives installed I like to disconnect the slave by unplugging the ide cable so that I can have more control over the drive letters if I am creating two partitions on the boot drive, and its a safeguard against wiping the data from the slave by mistake, as I did once after carefully moving everything from what I thought was the second partition to the slave only to find I had moved data from the slave to the second partition of the boot drive before carefully deleting the whole primary drive  :shock:

[daveeb]

 its a safeguard against wiping the data from the slave by mistake, as I did once after carefully moving everything from what I thought was the second partition to the slave only to find I had moved data from the slave to the second partition of the boot drive before carefully deleting the whole primary drive  :shock:

eek  :shock:  that sounds like something i'd do