theSpam Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 So, I was going to reformat my computer today, but nooooo, Windows XP wanted to be a whore. I had popped in the CD and rebooted and had gotten to the partition selection screen. I proceeded to install on the partition I wanted, but then XP wanted to copy some files onto my other hard drive...My OSx86 hard drive! I have that thing running nicely, and no way am I going to let XP wreck it! So, I'm probably going to disconnect the drive and then reformat tomorrow. In the mean time, does anyone know how to bypass this inconvience? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPTiK Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 In the mean time, does anyone know how to bypass this inconvience? Yeah... buy a mac!! LOL LOL Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-87825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 change the HD order in your bios for installations, so that windows writes to the first hard drive, it's own. after you install both OS's, you can use your function key (F11 in my case) to choose the hard drive you wish to boot to. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-87838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 XP wanted to copy some files onto my other hard drive...My OSx86 hard drive! I have that thing running nicely, and no way am I going to let XP wreck it!What files are being copied? Well at least you could back down from the install. If you don't want to open your case and pull the cable, you can always run a partition program to hide your partitions (Partition Magic, Acronis Disk Director, WinXP disk management : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=20568 control panel admin tools computer management disk management right click the drive/partition you wish to hide choose change drive letters and paths, from the drop down menu then click remove on the new window that pops up the drive/partition is hidden To make it visible again, do the same again only click add instead of remove. It is always good to do an image backup and MBR backup as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-87879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgdn17 Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 change the HD order in your bios for installations, so that windows writes to the first hard drive, it's own. after you install both OS's, you can use your function key (F11 in my case) to choose the hard drive you wish to boot to. agree wxp will "ALWAYS" copy files to the c drive..so his MAC must be the C drive, and where it is formatted "different" than fat32/ntfs...I forsee an issue....!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-87945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dponmac Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 Its not that big of an issue you just go into BIOS and change which hard drive it boots off of. It's not more difficult than choosing a partition to boot to Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-88153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grentz Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 as everyone has said, change the boot order....XP is made to copy install files to the C by default.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-88857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSpam Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Err, the drive I was installing WinXP onto was set to boot first. Anyways, I disconnected the drive for the reformat. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-89120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzie123 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I remembered that XP copied information to my E: drive (I assume that C: is my mac drive). So in the end, all I got on the "My Computer" screen is drives starting with E:... it's kinda weird though (and cause alot of problem, Acer's software automatically install themselves to C:, Zonealarm also doesn't respond well). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-90693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 another way that bill's trying to make money. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-91260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OryHara Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Big mistake. Its ALWAYS best to install XP FIRST on anything. XP is a {censored} and illegally Anti-Competative when it comes to installs. It will f*** up boot sectors, and overwrite stuff you don't want it to on other drives & partitions. Use multiple hard drives, thats what I do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-107332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giraid Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 I think it will cause problems if you do let XP install in the first partition or let it put some file in it. In my case, Norton wont install, Partition magic cant recognize partition table, ect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-116889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I remembered that XP copied information to my E: drive (I assume that C: is my mac drive). So in the end, all I got on the "My Computer" screen is drives starting with E:... it's kinda weird though (and cause alot of problem, Acer's software automatically install themselves to C:, Zonealarm also doesn't respond well). Been there too. Having your E: drive as the XP root drive (which is what I had on my dual-boot osx86 machine for a bit) is just too weird - and inconvenient every time you use a program which insists on writing something to C: Some driver updates on my HP laptop will only unpack to C: and they fall over if there's no C: drive - pah. When will developers learn not to hard-code paths? I've had so many issues with reinstalling Windoze on multi-drive machines that I follow a simple rule - I disconnect every drive except the one to which I'm installing before booting the XP install CD. Quite often that means farting around in the BIOS after reconnecting the drives because the boot order changes, but at least you get Windows on your C: drive and don't accidentally overwrite anything else. Windows can get very snitchy if you move drives around which were there at install time... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-118009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdprophet Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 The Windows XP installer likes to complain about not having the MBR written to the "first" hard drive. It "needs" to install MBR boot information to the Master drive on the Primary IDE cable. I had the same problem a few days ago and I almost overwrote my Linux drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13643-windows-xp-is-a-whore/#findComment-118129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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