-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wierd Stuff

Don,
    Do you have your original install disk copied to your hard drive 
somewhere?  I can't imagine why it didn't format the E: drive if it was 
truly running from the nLite disk.  But it appears that whatever DID run the 
install was unable to even see your main drive and thought of your second 
internal one as the C: during that installation.  You might want to 
disconnect ALL drives other than your main, internal or external, before 
conducting your next test.

Peace,
Gman

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:56 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Wierd Stuff


>I installed my second slipstream build in a VM and it worked fine except it 
>prompted for the product key and the time zone setting.
> I then took that build and tried to install it on my drive C: to replace 
> what was there.
>
> It would not boot.  Reinserted the disk and let setup run.
>
> I clicked on New Install, selected drive C:.
>
> Told it to format NTFS.
>
> It proceeded to install as if it was installing from the original M$ disc 
> and not from my nLite build.  Wierd.
>
> Even weirder, it installed to drive E: (an old internal 20GB drive). 
> Without formatting.  (Thank goodness!  I had some stuff on the drive).
>
> Now I have a triple boot computer.  Great!
>
> Back to work.
>
> Don 

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