FC5 and WinXP

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 30 19:20:52 UTC 2006


David Timms wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I must preface this; if I didn't need Winblows for work, my computers 
> 
> ...
> 
>> No, not *all* the problems. There are machines which check for changes
>> to the MBR, and go into a "recovery" mode if they detect "corruption".
>> Compaq computers are well-known for this, for example.
> 
> Maybe you can turn this "feature" off in the bios ?

Possibly. I don't want to on my machine. I find that the WinXP
boot manager works just fine.

Mike
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