On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:10, dbneeley <dbneeley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joan--
>
> Why would you want to do that to begin with?
>
> The boot manager will have to be installed on the first drive anyway; it will not care which drive either OS is installed on. Thus, you
> should be able to leave the XP where it is and install Linux on the second drive if you wish.
Just as an aside to consider, will XP even boot if it's not on the
first partition on first hard disk? It's been so long since I messed
with an XP system, but that's something to think about. It used to be
that Windows was coded so that it had to reside on the first partition
on the first (Primary Master) hard disk, otherwise, it would not boot
at all. I want to say that carried over into XP and didn't get fixed
until maybe Vista, but I'm not sure. As I said, it's been ages since
I last messed with XP.
Cheers,
Jeff
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