Re: Windows Vista (puke) and Windows Server 2008

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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Jones
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:44 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Windows Vista (puke) and Windows Server 2008

Tom - Would it be a Seagate drive of recent vintage?

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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Shannon ODonnell wrote:

What happened to the boot sector on that PC?

Shannon:

I haven't determined that yet. Sigh... work has been leaving far too
little time for experimental stuff.

According to basic diagnostic messages, the drive is having trouble.
Sectors are going bad. I haven't looked beyond the basics. On most
restart attempts, "No bootable device" could be located.

However, it all "happened" coincidentally during a restart after
attempting to install/activate Wubi (Windows-Ubuntu Installer) to
see how it might act on that PC.

Behaviors during multiple restart attempts, as well as during times
after restarts completed successfully, did make it _appear_ as if
sectors were right on the edge of reliability tolerances. But...
coincidences make me wonder.

There is no hint of anything malicious when AV scans, etc., are run.
It was pure flakiness that had nothing but the appearance of
hardware problems.

Fortunately, I had full backups of all partitions from before the
install.

Tom Liotta

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Shannon ODonnell wrote:

What I am trying to figure out.can I get one PC.install two internal

hard

drives in it, and on one, install Windows Vista (which I hate but

to

have little choice in avoiding.) and on the other I would like to run
Windows Server 2003 or 2008.

Shannon:

I've installed multiple copies of Win2k on separate drives with no
noticeable issues. In fact, just a few weeks ago, I installed Win2k
on the 2nd partition of a drive, after doing full restores of the
three partitions onto a new physical drive.

The boot sector got messed up on the original drive and...

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