Both my wife and I have had a drive other than the C: drive as the boot 
drive for some time.  For some reason, when I made the SATA drive the boot 
drive, the o.s. made it another drive besides C:, and I just kept it that 
way.

The only problem that I have experienced - and it can be annoying - is that 
some programs expect the C: drive to be the boot drive.  They tried to load 
themselves onto the C: drive, and it did not work well, because my C: drive 
was an iPod firewire connection.  These programs, for the most part, have 
been older programs.  (So, your "pushy programs" may cause you some 
trouble.)  I don't remember if there were any programs that I could not work 
around, but  I guess that if there were any, I have not been using them so I 
have forgotten all about them.  :)

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew J. Rozsa" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Is it OK not to have the OS on the C drive?


I am dual booting to Win2K and/or XP. As I am slowly migrating my
apps to XP, I am finding no compelling reason to keep Win2K, which is
installed on drive C (primary master). Am I looking for trouble
booting from a drive other than C (F, in this case, secondary master)
indefinitely? After 25 years of almost mandatory C:\ for the OS (and
many pushy programs that insist on being installed on C:) I feel
uneasy about changing my PC's ways. Am I worrying for no reason?

TIA

Andrew

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