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Irwin
This is all very complicated, and PM will do unpredictable things.
You should make an XP boot floppy, so that when things get messed up,
maybe you will be able to boot to whatever partition PM eventually
numbers the boot partition.
I have had PM renumber the partitions without asking me. I had to boot
from the boot floppy, which contained a boot.ini file, and then the
hard disk boot.ini had to be fixed manually to finally work again.
I once copied by boot partition to a second primary partition, and PM
rewrote the boot.ini files on both to allow dual boot from both, again
without asking, which isn't what I wanted and I had to edit both files
to fix that.
You just don't know what it is going to do. And that doesn't include
when it just destroys everything, which has happened to me more than
once. A proper image of your boot drive is essential.
Irwin
You should make an XP boot floppy, so that when things get messed up,
maybe you will be able to boot to whatever partition PM eventually
numbers the boot partition.
I have had PM renumber the partitions without asking me. I had to boot
from the boot floppy, which contained a boot.ini file, and then the
hard disk boot.ini had to be fixed manually to finally work again.
I once copied by boot partition to a second primary partition, and PM
rewrote the boot.ini files on both to allow dual boot from both, again
without asking, which isn't what I wanted and I had to edit both files
to fix that.
You just don't know what it is going to do. And that doesn't include
when it just destroys everything, which has happened to me more than
once. A proper image of your boot drive is essential.
Irwin