hi,

am writing to you from my Mandriva-Linux-Config (really new to this), nice Distro

I really like using it and I don't have to fear like on Windows, which I hacked to no end to have the visual look and functionality I wanted

well nothing against XP it's a great OS but not save enough to not get destroyed by me

well to my Problem:

I have got 2 HDDs

1 Master HDD with 250GB I run Mandriva from and

1 Slave HDD with 160GB which I would like to use for XP (maybe my Vista System later)

(cause gaming under Linux is not that good when you are gaming over network with windows users or play online, visualation just isn't the thing I want with Cadega and Wine)

well my question is:

Can Windows XP be forced to run from slave?

I read a few articles and a few ones said it can't, other ones said that GRUB (Bootloader used by many Linux-Distros can force it to do so)

Can you say me if I can run it from it without having trouble?

Well I can still delete my Mandrivaconfig and reinstall it (which I will do sometime because I setup a few mistakes)

Hope this is in the right forum for it... And you are experienced enough to help me

Thx in advance

set your hds to master slave and not cable select.

unplug master.

install windows to slave.

plug master back in.

add windows to grub.

done.

thx man

I will give it a try this weekend when I have time to open my system

edit: well, I think it does matter that both are SATA-Drives and not ATA/IDE about that cable-select, doesn't it?

Edited February 4, 200818 yr by Silver Sonic

i dont think so. just keep linux drive unpluged for the install and you should be set. master slave stuff probably wont mater then