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Booting from a Different Volume
Using the MicroDrive Turbo Card, you can choose any volume for the boot volume.
Just hold down the

key or the Option key at boot time. At the bottom of the
screen you can see a message which tells you how many volumes you have. Now
press any number

through

and

through

for the corresponding
volumes 1... 16.
Note: Be aware that you must have a bootable operating system on the desired boot
volume. At any time, when no key is pressed, rebooting will use the default
boot volume as specified in the utility program. Although you can boot from a
partition on drive two, the operating parameters from drive one will be used.
The default Boot Volume can be stored on both drives with different values. The
boot volume parameter only takes effect when coming from drive number one. This
is for reason of compatibility in the case you want to exchange the drives (yes, you
can do that with no problems) or you once prefer to use only one drive (this could
also be your second drive).
Note: One of the handiest features of the MicroDrive Turbo is the ability to select
the volume from which you would like to Temporally Boot.
Hold down the

key when turning on the computer or rebooting and press the
number key of the desired partition from which to boot. When holding down the

key the boot process will pause until either a number key is pressed or the

key is
released.
Releasing the

key and not pressing a number key will cause the default volume to
automatically boot. You are able to boot from ANY of the first sixteen (16) partitions
on the CF Card you desire. To boot from partitions ten (10) to sixteen (16) use the
letter keys

to

. The default boot volume can also be changed in the
MicroDrive Turbo
Partition Management Utility.
There can be issues when formatting partitions using some programs, such as Copy
II Plus. If you try to format a partition and the size is different than expected we
recommend using the format utility which is located on the
MicroDrive Turbo
Utility
Disk called IIE.PART.FORMAT .
This will let you format partitions correctly. Also, there has been a rare issue
reported on the IIe when ProDOS 8 maps the 3rd and 4th partitions to Slot 2, Drive 1
and Drive 2 rendering the partitions to report
Not A ProDOS Volume
or other such
errors.
To resolve this issue either install a device, such as a RAM card, that will force
ProDOS 8 to reassign 3rd and 4th partitions to something other than Slot 2 or change
the Slot in which the
MicroDrive Turbo
is installed.