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To: RansomOttawa
hah! I knew someone would have more recent experience than I.

Thank you.

35 posted on 10/15/2010 1:23:21 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
Thank you.

You're very welcome. I used to run this PC as a dual-boot setup, and originally the Windows XP install would crash during bootup, maybe 1/3 of the time. It turned out that I'd accidentally set the jumper on the drive to "slave" rather than "master." Once I fixed it, it ran solidly ever after (until the drive itself physically quit, and I haven't reinstalled Windows since).

I don't know about newer releases (Vista/7), but Windows 95/98/XP never even gave the option to install on a partition other than the first one on the first drive. I always figured the folks at Microsoft assumed their users were going to run Windows exclusively.

37 posted on 10/15/2010 2:58:27 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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