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to: `gordon Barnard`
from: Robert Wolfe
date: 2004-11-19 18:07:34
subject: Dual boot

>I'm have eCS 1.2 and WinXP installed on my system.  They are each on a separat
> physical drive and I would like to set up dual-boot.
> I've been using Powerboot for years, which lives in the MBR.  I tried this
> using the eCS
> HD as master and the WinXP disk as slave, but couldn't get XP to boot (just a
> blank
> screen with a blinking cursor).
>ISTR someone mentioning that XP had to be on the first HD encountered.  Is tha
> correct
> or is there another problem?  If true, will XP likely be bothered by the HPFS
> disks on the
> second HD?  I don't want my eCS installation to be harmed in trying to
> accomodate XP
> quirks.

Gordon, email me at robert_todd{at}adelphia.net as I run eCS 1.2 and WinXP Pro
in a dual boot situtation using the ECS BootManager.

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