[Gllug] Extremely strange disk imaging problem.

[david at gbenet.com]

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Windows 2000 Pro does prevent you from booting from a CD or DVD - and the only way to get
rid of Windows 2000 Pro is to delete the MBR.

In fact though you can set your order of boot in the BIOS this is ignored. I have installed
Windows 2000 Pro about 6 times - all on laptops all with the BIOS to boot from the CD or DVD
drive and all fail to boot. I've used DFSee to delete the MBR - success!

David


- - Tethys wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:33 PM, david at gbenet.com <david at gbenet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Windows writes to the MBR - even preventing you from booting from a CD or DVD
> 
> Please explain how the contents of an MBR can prevent me from booting
> from a different drive. If you were using a bootloader on the MBR to
> boot from CD/DVD then yes, that would no longer work. But nothing on
> the MBR should prevent you from booting directly from a CD/DVD.
> 
> Tet
> 

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