Hi Franco, it sounds like you are on the right track to me. It is probably the jumpers on the back of the drives. Where the jumper goes exactly is different depending on manufacturer, but they are marked on the top of the drive, normally with a diagram.
You would want the primary master set to Master, and the primary slave jumpered as "slave". Alternately, if you have the newer type of cables, you could set them both to "Cable Select" (CS). One would then operate as master and the other as slave automatically. Either way, both drives should be set to use one or the other, cable select or master/slave.
Once they are both seen in the bios, Windows should allow you to choose which OS to boot to, but if it does not, you will need to edit the startup (boot.ini) file. You can do that with a text editor, or you can go to Start>Run and typ in msconfig and click Ok. On the Boot tab you will find the same file.
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Answer:- Hi Franco, it sounds like you are on the right track to me. It is probably the jumpers on the back of the drives. Where the jumper goes exactly is different depending on manufacturer, but they are marked on the top of the drive, normally with a diagram.
You would want the primary master set to Master, and the primary slave jumpered as "slave". Alternately, if you have the newer type of cables, you could set them both to "Cable Select" (CS). One would then operate as master and the other as slave automatically. Either way, both drives should be set to use one or the other, cable select or master/slave.
Once they are both seen in the bios, Windows should allow you to choose which OS to boot to, but if it does not, you will need to edit the startup (boot.ini) file. You can do that with a text editor, or you can go to Start>Run and typ in msconfig and click Ok. On the Boot tab you will find the same file.
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