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Millard
December 9th 03, 12:23 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>Hey everyone,
>I am currently running windows xp on one of my hard
>drives and windows me on my second hardrive. At the
>moment I have to keep unplugging one of the other to use
>them. I would like to have them both running at the same
>time aswell as running my cdrw/dvd drive. My IDE cable
as
>3 plugs on it, so i plugged both hard drives onto it and
>then connected it to the controller on the motherboard,
>but my bios only detected one of my hard drives. Can i
>not do this then? Any help will be much appreciated.
>Thank you
>Lee
>.
>Your WINDOWS ME is running in SLAVE MODE and should be
placed on a second cable as MASTER. Your BIOS will not
let 2 different systems to run at the same time.

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