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Removing the primary drive
Name: b-one-b Date: September 3, 2002 at 18:59:23 Pacific
Comment:
Currently I have 2 HDD's in my PC, a 4.3 GB drive (C) and a 30 GB drive (D). At the moment I have Win98SE on [c] and XP on [d].
What I want to do is remove [c] and put it into another case so I can make a NetBSD firewall/server machine, and just leave [d] with XP on in this machine.
What do I need to do to make this successful? I know that if I just removed [c] the MBR would point in the wrong place and it won't find an OS to load. I have thought about copying boot.ini to [d] and editing it appropriatly. Would this be enough?
Name: Morris Date: September 5, 2002 at 06:33:30 Pacific
Reply:
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