Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

The new Trios cards don't allow someone to switch drives accidentally.
If you push the buttons while the computer is running, nothing happens.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
To: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen
review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and
a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
better solution than the trios.
I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you
want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to
switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and
insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in Linux in
a minute or two.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


> Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> I have one of these cards.
> It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> computer.
> You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> I really like it.
> Glenn.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom at bredband.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
>
>
> Hi to the list.
> I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
> I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
> on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
> trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
> Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
> for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
> installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
> or how should i go about?
> Thanks for any help!
> --
> /Krister
>
>
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