Thanks for that.
The vendor left his computer with dual boot! XP and Ubuto Sp? So it'll be a chance to learn before a clean sweep. Thought I'd do that when the W7 RC is coming to an end.
Fully agree about W7. Love it. But my mate sometimes needs a steer, and I boot in XP to remind me of odds. Also, my Creative webcam won't work on 7. Marked Obsolete.
Too mean to buy another. It works perfectly in XP - good little unit in fact.
Trying to emulate XP in W7 produced nothing, I got the impression that I needed to download an add-on for this function. Is this in fact, true?
Really, saying bios in the way I did was rather misleading. All I was actually doing is pressing Esc on start and it would give me the choice of choosing my disc.
But, both were set to master...it's the only way it would work. It would go well for ages, then throw chkdks 's at me. Disaster would follow.
This time, not only did that (abruptly aborted ) procedure kill my second drive. It necessitated running CHKDSK on the third logical drive in the main physical drive. I'm left to believe that if I'd not crashed out of the procedure, I may have had the main drive totally corrupted.
So, I don't dare run that physical setup ever again. I had to press my own ribbons cos no one had them anymore...etc., etc. All old hat and a
nuisance. I missed SATA by a few days, my son's 'identical' purchase, was next generation.
Anyway, back to seeing what I've purchased.