Re: Windows Vista (puke) and Windows Server 2008

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What happened to the boot sector on that PC?  

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Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Windows Vista (puke) and Windows Server 2008

Shannon ODonnell wrote:

> What I am trying to figure out.can I get one PC.install two internal hard
> drives in it, and on one, install Windows Vista (which I hate but seem to
> have little choice in avoiding.) and on the other I would like to run
> Windows Server 2003 or 2008.  

Shannon:

I've installed multiple copies of Win2k on separate drives with no 
noticeable issues. In fact, just a few weeks ago, I installed Win2k 
on the 2nd partition of a drive, after doing full restores of the 
three partitions onto a new physical drive.

The boot sector got messed up on the original drive and I couldn't 
get the new drive to boot after the restores. So, I installed onto 
partition 2, the drive got marked as bootable, and I could then 
choose which install to boot from. So far, everything looks 
essentially exactly like it used to under the old physical setup, 
except, of course, I now have an alternative Win2k to boot to.

Made me glad that I had originally partitioned the drive into 
decently sized partitions.

But that's Win2k -- not Vista nor Windows Server of any flavor.

Tom Liotta