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echo: nthelp
to: John Beamish
from: Geo.
date: 2003-10-31 19:59:42
subject: Re: XP and my new drive

From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> Q:  When I move the wiring harness around so that the new hard drive
becomes
> drive0 (with C: and two other drive letters), will the boot take place
even
> though there isn't an MBR partition on that disk?  If not ... what should
I
> do and when?

Usually what I do (note I stay away from XP because this never seems to
work with XP when I do it) is once I have the drives switched I boot from
the CD and do a repair of the boot files.

Geo.

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