Good morning, Matt.

 MM> No, it does NOT have to see the IDE-1 master, BUT...

 MM> If it is attempting to boot Windows, Windows itself will try to find a
 MM> read/write area for the swapfile, which it will fail to do with only
 MM> the CD, unless a lot of planning was put onto that "boot
CD" prior to
 MM> burning it.

        It does not even get this far. The BIOS sees nothing. I have the
        HDD set on Primary IDE as Master and the CD as slave. In the
        BIOS, I have selected Auto for the two dedvices and Auto also
        where LBA or Normal is selected. When the BIOS runs on startup,
        it says Primary Master = none and the same for the Slave. I do
        not think that it is a Windows fault.

        My question was about using the CD when the HDD is not there at
        all ? Do you think that the CD could be placed on IDE # 1
        without the any HDD at all ?

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