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