Re: Two "expert" issues I must solve before upgading

From: Jeff W (msnews_at_kwcpa.com)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:09:01 -0400

Sharon - could I comment on your writing below? When you say "recorded
during disk prep" isn't it recorded in the boot record of the partition
containing XP - so when you overwrite that partition with the disk-image
restore, the correct information should be restored, yes?

/j

Sharon F wrote:

>While the hard drive is in PC#2 it will be hard drive 1 (second hard drive)
>and this will be recorded during the disk prep. Move it to PC#1, it now
>becomes hard drive 0. XP's hardware check will see that change and you
>could run into trouble because of it.
>
>
>

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