sunando, the problem is that you have asked way too many questions at once. You just post a bunch of information and then expect that we are going to interpret all your actual questions and answer them.
For example, I see the following topics in your post:
- Information about how to hook up and configure multiple drives of both PATA types and SATA types to a specific motherboard.
- How to configure the BIOS to properly handle drives of different types.
- How to handle multibooting operating systems from different drives.
- The definitions and differences between primary, secondary, master, and slave.
- How operating systems are able to share drive data from other OS's partitions and how to configure them to do so.
- Smart strategies on how to add additional storage and how to select the format that the drive should be in.
- Backup strategies and how to implement them.
- Handling partitions that have crashed OSes on them.
- Reparing broken partitions and preventing OS crashes.
On top of all of this, you request that the responder creates a simple, step-by-step guide just for you so that you aren't confused. You also request additional information that the responder may feel is related to the subjects.
I often respond to single-subject questions with multiple paragraphs of data that can take up to anywhere from fifteen minutes to many hours to think about, research, and post so that I ensure that I have given the person quality information that I have ensured will work and that is presented in a fashion that is simple to understand. If I were to answer all your questions in the manner you wish to have the response in, I would be spending a full day reading technical references, researching hardware information, and creating a formatted technical how-to document.
I don't believe that is true that you expected too much from DaniWeb, there are great people here with a willingness to share their valuable resources for nothing in return. I do believe that you expected too much from a response. Any response to your questions would either not satisfy all the questions that you have or would be inaccurate and oversimplified.
My suggestion to you is to post a reply that picks a single topic as a starting point. I'd think that you would first like to learn how to manage PATA and SATA drives on a system and how you tell the BIOS to use a PATA drive as the boot drive before the SATA drive or vice-versa. Then go on to ask about master, slave, primary, and secondary definitions. From this base, we can start building, but it will still take a long time to answer all your questions.
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