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Old May 10, 2005, 07:01 PM   #1
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Question about stopping my dual booting

I recently went to a RAID 0 config. I started the RAID 0 from scratch and left my old IDE perfectly in tact. Once I got stuff working great, I plugged my old IDE back in. Because my old IDE was my booting hard disk, the windows install was still in tact and when I boot up, I am now offered the selection of both my RAID and my old IDE. Anyhow, I want to know if there's an easy way(or rather, the best way) to stop my BIOS from recognizing the bootable IDE disk. I was hoping that there would be somthing simple in Windows to disable or rename to make my BIOS stop autodetecting it. I've tried everything in the BIOS itself, but can't seem to get it to stay. The reason I want it to be simple is that I may want to boot back to my IDE again, but for the most part, I just want it to be a storage disk. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Old May 10, 2005, 07:05 PM   #2
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Right click my computer
hit properties
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and i beleive you can either A: adjust the times, or you can hit EDIT and delete the OS line that you don't wish to use.

OR you can delete the entire windows install that you aren't useing.

I'd suggest waiting for an answer from Ctrl-Alt-Delete first though. He'll know
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Old May 13, 2005, 10:50 AM   #3
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i believe all the questions have already been answered by you JD.
unless the original poster posts back for more questions.
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