Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:51, Bryce C wrote:
> It's been awhile since I've had to do any work on sub 2k but I know what
> I've found from personal experience and that is, Windows XP Professional
> would not boot unless it was one the Master. I didn't try primary or
> secondary but, I remember that I had to, in order to switch OSes, change
> the first boot device in the BIOS from the primary slave to the primary
> master. I now know that I didn't even have to do that because i could
> just copy the linux drive's MBR and use that file for windows 2k/xp to
> boot from. My point remains, however, that XP would not boot if it were
> on the slave, even though that's where it was installed on originally.
> Maybe something was screwy with the hardware. I don't know right now and
> don't need to.
> I simply charge more because windows gives me grief way more often than
> anything else.
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Actually Win2k/XP/NT4 are like Linux - they aren't gonna boot if the mbr
isn't located or if the mbr points to a bootloader that is in an
unexpected hardware location.

Craig