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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 10:35 AM Original message |
Erasing Vista's physical drive |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. Were you just trying to reformat, |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Regular disk format. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 12:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Simplest config means the 2nd disk has its own lone partition. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 01:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I am still conused |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 01:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Double check those jumpers. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 03:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. No jumpers, but all is well now |
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CK_John (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. Before you erase the drive, you have to change the dual boot or you may lose both. Boot.ini on the |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 01:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Here's my boot.ini |
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CK_John (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The MBR has be updated. I use an WinME bootdisk and boot from a floppy and run |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I don't have any floppies, but It's better now |
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CK_John (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 06:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Remove the timeout = 30 from the boot.ini, that was to give you a choice of which OS to boot before |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 09:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. That makes sense... |
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