I have worked with windows on the second or third hard drives and linux on the first. Windows XP, if it is loaded second recognises there is another operating system on the first partitions / drives and sets the active partition flag off for that partition and sets itself active.
The windows answer is to change the active flag from the Win XP disk manager everytime you want to boot non windows. .. yuck!!! BootStar is an excellent little product that handles this quite well. It has been stable on my machine for over 12 months now. I have Win Xp, Win NT, Win98 and Linux all co-habitating. The recommended method is to use NT bootloader load lilo/grub, because NT loader loves to own the mbr. Try this url ... http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Install-Strategies/index.html or this one .. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-6.html#ss6.2 As I said though, an easy option is bootstar. It is 425.00, you can try it as shareware first and works well for me. Shane On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:17, you wrote: > Deleated the first posting. > > I suspect that windows cannot cope with being on hdb(c) and is franticly > looking for files on hda. > > If I am wrong would someone correct me please. > > Phil. > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Julian Visch wrote: > > If it makes any difference windows 2000 is installed on ntfs rather than > > vfat32. -- Shane Hollis Notes Unlimited New Zealand Ph: 021 465 547 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
