Got a question. I would like to reinstall XP so it will take advantage of
my SATA drives (after all speed was the whole reason I bought them in the
first place). I would not even be considering this if Wine were a bit more
stable. The only thing I use XP for is to play WoW. I had it working
under Wine (PCLinuxOS 2008MiniMe) and did a general upgrade. Between the
update to the system, including Wine and the updates Blizzard made to Wow,
I cannot get WoW to run under Linux any more. Bummer - much better
experience than under XP.

When I installed XP, I did not know it would not read SATA, after all
Windows is the latest and greatest OS ever written. Right? Yeah, right.
Anyhow I did the install on the new box and all went well. Got Linux up
and running afterward (which was easier than the XP install). Then noticed
that I was running my drives under IDE. Changed to SATA and, you know what
happened. Linux ran like a top and XP refused to load.

So, if I reinstall XP, which will wipe the bootloader, into the existing
partition and then install PCLinux OS into an empty partition, but mount
the existing Linux partition under the new install. Then I can grab my now
current bootloader file (menu.1st), copy it to the new partition, rerun the
bootloader app and I should be able to boot to my current Linux partition.
I could then, rerun the bootloader just to tidy things up.

Will that work?

Deb