can linux save my life again?

[Josh Coffman]

The boot sector is on the IDE drive and the OS is on
the SATA drive. I wasn't paying attention during the
windows install so it's really my fault. I'm just
trying to figure out how to fix it without a complete
re-install.

plus I really want to try a 64 bit, dual core Fedora
install.

Good point about the boot section not needing to be
first, but I just can't bring myself to do it any
other way.


--- Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure how you installed the windows
> partition without room for the
> bootloader. As I understood it, the boot sector is a
> dedicated part of the
> beginning of the drive. Regardless of your
> partitioning. Also, even if you
> install Fedora Core on another part of the drive, it
> will still pick up that
> as the active boot partition, and not the windows
> one. Either or, it is a
> win win situation. (It should be noted that the
> actual boot implementation
> is on whatever partition the boot manager can see.
> Not the first sectors of
> the drive.)
> 
> On 6/20/06, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Windows does see the SATA drive and is installed
> on
> > it. The problem is the boot loader location. It is
> > currently on the IDE drive.
> >
> > Also, I didn't leave room for a boot loader on the
> > SATA drive. (Again, wasn't thinking.) So I need to
> > move the windows partition on the SATA drive. How
> much
> > room should I give to the boot sector?
> >
> > --- Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am not sure what version of windows you are
> using,
> > > but I was able to get
> > > XP to recognize SATA2 for install without third
> > > party drivers, so copying
> > > the image from the PATA to the SATA drive may
> > > actually work for your
> > > situation, provided you remove the PATA drive
> from
> > > the computer to ensure it
> > > doesn't pick it up first, or set your boot
> order.
> > >
> > > If you are installing Fedora, then it will setup
> the
> > > boot record correctly
> > > on the SATA drive and the first time you boot
> into
> > > windows it will
> > > automatically read the SATA drive. I hope this
> > > helps. :)
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Judd Pickell
> > >
> > > On 6/20/06, Mike Garfias <mike at garfias.org>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > der.hans spoke forth with the blessed
> manuscript:
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you want m$ on the SATA drive or on the
> IDE
> > > drive?
> > > > >
> > > > > Theoretically, you can create a new
> partition,
> > > then dd the old
> > > > filesystem
> > > > > onto it. The new partition has to be at
> least as
> > > large as what you're
> > > > > copying.
> > > > >
> > > > > This works for Linux, but I wouldn't know
> from
> > > personal experience if it
> > > > > works for m$.
> > > >
> > > > That would work to get windows on that slice,
> but
> > > wouldnt solve his
> > > > problem of
> > > > getting the sata driver into windows.  I think
> > > there is some way to do
> > > > that.
> > > > But don't ask me how, I haven't touched a
> windows
> > > box in 2+ years.
> > > >
> > >
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