j0hn00

I was just wondering if anyone knew how to remove that pesky residual 8mb or so MBR from a hard drive when reinsalling windows. I usually boot off my XP disc and use it's formatting. Someone told me to boot off a 98SE disc and run the command "fdisk /mbr", then boot of my XP disc. Is there another way I can do this in windows after installation?

One other thing... I've got 2 HDDs and 2 ODDs with 2 IDE ports on my motherboard. Is it better to have both HDDs on one cable or splitting and mixing with the ODDs? Basically, the primarys would be HDDs and slaves would be ODDs on both cables. I don't do on-the-fly burning, but I do quite a few data transfers between HDDs. Thanks.

pipster

u can download a prog called gdisk from the int (symantec i think)
use the switches gdisk 1 /mbr /wipe /sure
u can get the switches by typing gdisk /?

if u put a hdd and a cdrom for example on 1 ide cable... the system will run at the speed off the slowest drive.
its better i think to put the hdd`s together...that if they dont differ 2 much from eachother

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j0hn00

I thought all newer motherboards supported independent device timing.