Napoleon Ahiable wrote:
So please tell me, i have two partitions on the master disk. the first is an FAT32 compaq Recovery drive and the second is an NTFS windows drice (c:). has anyone successfuly installed a dual boot on a similar system overwriting the windows MBR?
thnx.
*/Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
> I am told that such a setup will screw my pc up because of the compaq > partition on the first harddisk. Apperently manufactures like compaq have > custom booting sequences and overwriting the main boot record will mess the > pc up. That is why i have avoided this method. So until i am absolutly sure > that, such a setup will work, i'm avoiding it. Thanks for your help though. > Its much appreciated.
that doesn't make any sense... I've never seen a "custom booting sequence"... I've dual booted window+arch on around 10-15 machines, and never, ever had an issue with grub chainloading ntloader...
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