can linux save my life again?

[Judd Pickell]

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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