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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: |
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> Anyone out there have a good pointer for me? |
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Install Windows on the second drive as if it were the first (unplug your |
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primary drive). |
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Use grub to swap the location of the two drives before you boot Windows |
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after it's installed and you have your drives reconnected as you want |
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them. The word around here is that Windows needs to believe it's on the |
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primary drive in order to work correctly. I happen to know that's not true |
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because I've run Windows installs on secondary drives in the past. |
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However, Windows will install the boot information to the MBR of the |
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primary drive and the boot.ini file will need to accurately reflect where |
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the OS is really stored. I suspect people just feel it's easier to use |
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grub to swap the drives virtually rather than toy with a boot.ini file. |
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Ric |
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