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Re-Hooking HD's on PC with Win 95
Hello:
All the old machines I have ever worked on in the past had the HD's hooked to a single controller even if their were 2 of them. They would be hooked as master and slave drives. Now I have a much newer machine with on-board primary and secondary controllers. When I put the sys together I hooked the drives (I have 2- WD 1.2 gig) to one cable as master and slave drives. Then Win 95 was installed and all works fine.
All the old machines I have ever worked on in the past had the HD's hooked to a single controller even if their were 2 of them. They would be hooked as master and slave drives. Now I have a much newer machine with on-board primary and secondary controllers. When I put the sys together I hooked the drives (I have 2- WD 1.2 gig) to one cable as master and slave drives. Then Win 95 was installed and all works fine.
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Just to clarify what you said at the begining of your responce, as long as I take care of the BIOS setup on the machine. Which in this case would be Primary master - drive C: & Secondary master - drive D:... Then Win 95 will take care of itself as far as re-configuring itself (device manager) when I start Windows? I figured that was the way it would work, but just wanted to make sure before starting to pull & plug wires!!!
P.S. I have a tape drive and do plan to format and restore my fastest drive of the two as my C: drive.
Take Care;
Jeff