SilverJimmy What do u do when it turns out that everything u believed in, everything you have ever cared about, was actually a lie?
A few days ago my PC started locking up on me after about a minute of use. Then would eventually go to BSOD if I was patient enough to wait for it. So, tonight I started pulling hardware and connections and reseating everything, figuring something was making Windoze unhappy. As due course for this happy process, I disconnected the non-essential "data" drive. With my now-minimal-hardware configuration, I reboot.... to an error message saying it couldn't find some Windows loader...? Buh? Long story... errr... long but not as long as it could be, it turns out some of the files required to boot, part of the boot manager, were installed to the fraqqin other drive!!! So Stupid. So, the whole purpose of having a sep. OS drive is now for not, BOTH drives are requisite to boot. Did I select this fun option during install? NO. FRAK YOU WINDOWS VISTA!!!
Disclaimer: I think this might be a side effect of having accidentally hooked up the data drive on the first SATA channel. This is totally a guess, though. WTF do I know of SATA channels? I'm too old for this shit.
The upside: it's now a little after 2am, and I've written this diatribe from my PC. Of course, it's still in "bare bones" mode AND, despite many attempts with bcdedit, it STILL requires the second drive to boot. But, it works. No more lockups. So, tomorrow I get to work through reinstalling hardware bit by bit until I find the problem child. Oh yeah, good times.
I better stop, I can tell I'm turning you on.
AUG 16, 2009 02:55 AM
AUG 18, 2009 12:41 PM
Ah yea windows will always install the boot sector data onto the first available hdd in the bios. You can specify which drive you want the bulk of the data installed to, but as for the boot data, that'll be on the C drive (which windows will change the drive letters around to make the chosen primary drive the C drive once it's booted). It can be weird, but I always figured it's like that to give you more flexibility in your install process, to be simpler for the average user, and to be able to work on a wide range of bios'.
I'm actually a big fan of windows. As long as you use the same quality hardware that Apple does and take the same precautions that they do it's stable as can be and works great. Of course neither of them will ever be QNX. 
AUG 18, 2009 08:05 PM
There's websites browsable on IE6 still? 
That's madness.
