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.
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.