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Bios options for hard disk?

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Greeneye, 2008/02/25.

  1. 2008/02/25
    Greeneye

    Greeneye Inactive Thread Starter

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    What is the meanings of all the options of hard disk in the Bios. I can see over 40 options: the normal option is "auto" but there is an option to turn a hard disk off and a whole lot of other options in between? What happens if I use the off option?

    My computer is an old DELL optiplex gx 110 P3 733mhz. The mother board is pheonix.
     
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  2. 2008/02/26
    Steve R Jones

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    If you use the OFF option it'll do pretty much do what the word off means...You would lose access to the drive.
     
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  4. 2008/02/26
    Greeneye

    Greeneye Inactive Thread Starter

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    re: bios hdd options

    Thanks. Does it mean that when I turn it off, the second hard disk becomes the only accessible? What if I now install a copy of win98 on the second hard disk, will it work? I know that normally, I have to install win98 first.

    Also, I saw that the other options are something less than the true size of the hard disk, such as 100mb, 200mb ... instead of 40 gig( real size ). What it means? :confused:
     
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  5. 2008/02/27
    Steve R Jones

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    Depending on your BIOS's options, changing the boot drive "order" would be better...You'd have to go into the BIOS every time you want to switch..

    Using the OFF function should also work...But, I have a Dell pc that the OFF function doesn't work...

    There are Boot Manager Software's that would be the simpliest thing to do. They allow you to pick n chose which OS to boot from.

    I would ignor the other options you're seeing for hard drives..
     
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