Newsgroup: it.comp.os.win.win2000
Titolo: Win2000/Win98 coexistence problem?

I am not sure if I have two separate problems here or if they may be related.
1. My first question (which might not have anything to do my second question):
When I boot up my computer the message "Secondary IDE channel no 80 conductor 
cable installed"? can be seen in the black "dos bootup" screen. What does it 
mean? On my primary IDE channel (the flat cables?) I have two removable 5.25 
inch hard disk racks connected and on the second IDE channel I have a DVD drive 
installed (ASUS DVD-ROM E612 1.05).
To me the message sounds like some cable is missing or not connected correctly 
but I can't find any missing or loose cable. (Hmmm... now when I read what I 
have written... perhaps it is just a verification message telling me that ID 
Channel IS INSTALLED? That "no" doesn't stand for "not" but for "number 80" and 
that everything is OK?
2. My second question (that is definitely not OK):
In my hard disk racks I alternate different disks. I have one 20 GB Fujitsu 
with Windows 2000 installed, one 3.4 GB Samsung with Windows 98 installed and 
one 40 GB Fujitsu as a windows 2000 "Dynamic Volume" (Simple Dynamic Volume).
I bought my new 40 GB hard disk a few days ago and went to "Disk management" in 
Windows 2000 to partition the drive. When I right clicked on the new drive the 
only alternative for me was to create a "dynamic volume". There were no 
alternative where I could choose to create an ordinary partion. Well I tried 
this new feature in Windows 2000 and created a dynamic volyme of 40 GB, i.e. 
the whole disk. Everything seemed to work fine until I noticed that I started 
to get problems booting my 3.4 GB Samsung disk with windows 98. In the 
beginning I got the message "Non system disk or disk error, replace disk and 
press any key to continue" when I removed the windows 2000 disk to start 
windows 98.
It has worked very well switching like this back and forth between windows 2000 
and windows 98 (before this new dynamic volume?). Both disks are on the same 
IDE channel and the jumpers on both disk are actually set so they are primary 
slave, i.e. none of the disk are primary master. I found that it worked very 
well to boot both windows 2000 and windows 98 anyway. What I gained by having 
it that way was that when both disks were connected then windows 2000 would 
"take over" and boot. If I turned the key and switched off the hard disk rack 
with windows 2000 then windows 98 would boot fine and that was the way I wanted 
it.
Now though, it seems my windows 98 disk gets wrecked very often/always after I 
have had it connected when booting windows 2000. Also it is noticably slow to 
move files from this windows 98 disk when I am in windows 2000. It was not like 
that a while ago.
Firstly started to get this "Non system disk..." message mentioned above. When 
that happened I could boot up with a windows 98 startup disk, reinstall windows 
98 and then I could boot again (fdisk /mbr did not help). And, again, after the 
next time I had run windows 2000 with the win98 disk connected the boot up 
problem was back...
Now though I don't even come to where I get the message "Non system disk..." 
the computer hangs when the booting process has come to showing the message 
"Verifying DMI Pool Data...". When I boot up with a Windows 98 startup disk and 
runs fdisk it says there is no c: drive. When I removed the two partitions I 
had on my windows 98 disk then I again got the message "Non system disk..." and 
I could access drive c so I could reinstall windows 98. And now again windows 
2000 have wrecked the possibility to boot the windows 98 disk...
Anyone have any idea that could help me?
Regards,
Mats

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