Re: Windows Vista (puke) and Windows Server 2008

[Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shannon ODonnell wrote:
> What happened to the boot sector on that PC?  

Shannon:

I haven't determined that yet. Sigh... work has been leaving far too 
little time for experimental stuff.

According to basic diagnostic messages, the drive is having trouble. 
Sectors are going bad. I haven't looked beyond the basics. On most 
restart attempts, "No bootable device" could be located.

However, it all "happened" coincidentally during a restart after 
attempting to install/activate Wubi (Windows-Ubuntu Installer) to 
see how it might act on that PC.

Behaviors during multiple restart attempts, as well as during times 
after restarts completed successfully, did make it _appear_ as if 
sectors were right on the edge of reliability tolerances. But... 
coincidences make me wonder.

There is no hint of anything malicious when AV scans, etc., are run. 
It was pure flakiness that had nothing but the appearance of 
hardware problems.

Fortunately, I had full backups of all partitions from before the 
install.

Tom Liotta

> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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...