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Re: [PLUG] Memory hardware questions
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Arthur S. Alexion:
My current setup includes 2 physical drives. The older 1 GB IDE drive
holds the MBR and the windows system files. The newer 40 GB PCI/ATA
100 drive holds 2 or 3 more 2.2 GB windows partitions and Linux. The
default boot is Linux. In theory, I could move the rest of windows to
the ATA 40 GB drive, and use the old drive just for the MBR and swap.
However, I've heard windows is touchy about not being on the boot
drive, so will this cause more problems that it solves?
Windows isn't touchy about being on a different drive than the boot
drive, but it is touchy about not having its boot files on the "C:"
drive for some reason. Also some braindead installation programs insist
on writing to C:\windows\ or c:\program files|*. You could in fact do a
faithful copy of your present windows setup with Linux to a partition
and edit the MSDOS.sys file in the root directory to change the windows
drive and it would work, I've done this several different times.
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