Subj : Re: Hard Drive configuration
To   : Bogomips
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon May 12 2025 09:33 pm

-=> Bogomips wrote to All <=-

Bo> In and attempt to have a dual boot laptop

Bo> Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D:
Bo> drive on install.

This doesn't really make any sense to me.  Slackware doesn't know
anything about any "D:".  That's a Windows term.

Bo> After trying every scenerio online. I still come up short.

Bo> I was thinking of changing the physical location of the drive?

Not sure what that means.  Attach it to a different port/cable?

Bo> Out of the box (2018) it was setup in RAID config.

I would recommend not doing RAID, at least for now.  I don't know a
whole lot about RAID, but don't the 2 drives have to be the same size to
use RAID?  The data below shows them as different sizes.

Bo> The BIOS shows the two drives as
Bo> First HDD none
Bo> Second HDD none
Bo> Third HDD IntelSSDlkji (180.G)
Bo> fourth HDD sd2000louol (2000.3G)

Strange, seems they would show up as the First and Second.  Are these
SATA?  PATA/IDE?  M2/NVME?  What are they?

Bo> Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds
Bo> spot?

Not sure what that even means.

Bo> And any other actions I  would need to take?

Get them connected to (maybe/probably) the SATA0 and SATA1 connectors
(I'm assuming SATA drives here).  If you can boot up to the Slackware
installation media (USB stick?), then run fdisk/cfdisk/cgdisk to wipe
the partion table out on both drives.  Then create new partitions as
desired.  Then reboot into the installation media and start the install.

Get the "D:" out of your head when installing Linux/Slackware.  Also, in
my dim memory of when I used to dual boot, I believe it's usually
(always?) best to install Windoze before whatever Linux distro you want
to install.

Feel free to ask some more questions with some actual useful info on
your setup/config if you need to.  Good luck.



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