I want to dual boot WinXP/Mandrake 10 official. When I have dual booted WinXP and Mandrake 10 official on the same drive, the Mandrake install program recognizes the WinXP install and handles setting up all the dual boot parameters. But this time I want to install WinXP on one hard disk. Change the setting on the Win XP HD to slave and then install Mandrake 10 official on the second drive which will be the master. Will the install program handle this? I will format the WinXP HD with Fat32. Thanks

As I udnerstand, you want to install XP on a slave disk, then install Linux on the master. I don't see any problem with that, it should work.

What I accidently discovered a few weeks back was the following:

I ran Mandrake 10 on my primary master and just had my backups on my secondary master which was fat32. I then disabled the Linux drive and installed windows on the secondary master. after that I enabled the Linux drive again. Take note that because the fat32 partition existed when I installed Linux, it already made a bootloader entry for windows. So after I re-enabled the Linux drive, I tried to boot to windows through LILO and it worked, so if you still have your second hard drive as a fat32 you can install Linux and use it until you need windows and only then install it the same way I did.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Trickle

I have Mandrake 10 on my Master HDD and XP on the slave... Doing it this way will keep your MBR on your Mandrake HDD... Your XP boots through Mandrake... This set up works...

Thanks for the replies