No Problem Chris with putting Windos on the second drive. Windos doesn't care where it is. During the install, just indicate the drive letter where you want to install it when it asks you. I could be wrong but I am fairly certain that you must install windows on the first drive. Although the \windows directory can be elsewhere, there are (I believe) certain components that must be on the first drive. I think I ran into this problem when using Partition Magic. If I am wrong here, I welcome correction.
I seem to remember something similar from back in those far gone days when I used Windows... These components that 'must' be on the first drive only need to be there because Microsoft says so, not for any technical reasons, IMHO. My advice would be to temporarily unplug your first drive, to convince Windows that it's getting pride of place on the first drive, and then plug the drive with your real OS back in when the install is finished. I see no reason why this shouldn't work, although I don't have the details of your setup :/
This is sort of where my problem comes from. I have a scsi system and my first drive is on the wide part of the controller card and all the rest of the drives are on the narrow part and for some reason this sytem will only boot off the narrow side and i don't want to buy a new drive for that when i have a spare narrow drive sitting there. I might be able to do the ide thing as i think my bios can bypass booting off the ide drive. Only reason for this doing this stupid thing is that my win machine is very outdated a slow where the SuSE machine is far better by a long shot. *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------*