On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:10, dbneeley <[email protected]> wrote: > Joan-- > > Why would you want to do that to begin with? > > The boot manager will have to be installed on the first drive anyway; it will > not care which drive either OS is installed on. Thus, you > should be able to leave the XP where it is and install Linux on the second > drive if you wish.
Just as an aside to consider, will XP even boot if it's not on the first partition on first hard disk? It's been so long since I messed with an XP system, but that's something to think about. It used to be that Windows was coded so that it had to reside on the first partition on the first (Primary Master) hard disk, otherwise, it would not boot at all. I want to say that carried over into XP and didn't get fixed until maybe Vista, but I'm not sure. As I said, it's been ages since I last messed with XP. Cheers, Jeff ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
