RE: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay

Nope, no option expander "(+)" Just four devices listed, none of which will
cause the system to boot on the second hard drive.

And all I can find about the boot.ini file on W2k (via google) is references
to booting different OS's from different partitions nothing about booting
from a different hard disk drive.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Bell [mailto:RobDBell@mailworks.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:24 PM
To: David Reid
Cc: thinkpad@stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay

There should be a (+) by the hard drive item in the list and it should
allow you to expand it to choose the UltraBay drive.

Rob

David Reid wrote:

> Thanks Rob,
>
> I'll try the Win2000 boot ini file as the F12 option doesn't show the
second
> hard drive, only the primary, cdrom etc.
>
> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Bell [mailto:RobDBell@mailworks.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:45 AM
> To: David Reid
> Cc: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay
>
>
> David Reid wrote:
>
>>Seasons Greetings to everyone,
>>
>>I have a spare hdd in use mounted in an adapter and currently installed in
>>the ultra bay or ultra bay 2000 (the drive bay on the left side of the
>>A30p).
>>
>>I looked in the bios but didn't seen anything initially that would allow
>
> me
>
>>to do this... Can the option be set to prompt me if I wish to boot up on
>>this second hard drive? The drive has Windows 98se installed on C btw and
>>I'm running Windows 2000 on the primary hdd.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Dave
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I don't think there is a BIOS option that would prompt you automatically
> at each boot. There are definitely BIOS settings that let you choose
> which drive to boot from, but you'd have to enter the BIOS and change
> the setting each time you wanted to switch boot order.
>
> There are two additional options for you though:
>
> 1. You can press a key (F12) at boot time that should bring up a
> 'Temporary boot device selection list' (or something like that). My
> A21p has this so I assume your A30p would too. This will present you
> with a menu that you can choose from. The only downside of this is that
> you have to catch the PC at the right moment during boot-up to press F12.
>
> 2. You can alter the boot.ini of the Win2000 drive to have an entry
> for the Win98 drive. Then, make the Win2000 drive the one that boots
> all the time. Now Win2000 will present you with the boot menu at every
> boot that allows you to choose which system to start. This is an OS
> solution that has nothing to do with the ThinkPad BIOS other than the
> one-time setup telling the TP to boot from the Win2000 drive. If you do
> a Google/Yahoo search with keywords like "dual boot windows 2000
> boot.ini" I think you'll find tutorials walking you through how to set
> up the boot.ini file like this.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Later,
> Rob
>
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