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Try switching the jumper on the CD-ROM drive master\slave. Your new hard drive might have a jumper for cable select or master\slave that is interfering with the CD drive. I've had a few that required having the CD drive set to slave before it would boot.

I wondered about that, but the drive failed to read normal CDs even under WinME and had trouble with DVDs, too. This is in contrast to normal operation that I'm used to seeing of the drive, so I thought the whole master/slave/cable-select issue was moot.
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I always thought ME was the worst OS MS released. You must have a great deal of patience. Love Win2k - I think it's the best release from MS.

I've been much too patient with ME. I've run Win2k at work for four years and have never had a problem. Mistake Edition, indeed.
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Partition your drives. There's no need to have one 300GB blob.

It's in the plan... sort of. The idea is to partition off about 50GB for Ubuntu to play with and the rest for MicroSoft. Should I partition up the MS portion into smaller bits? I've never done that before and I don't know what the pros and cons would be.
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Vmware now has a free copy. I've been running Ubuntu as a virtual machine on an XP laptop. It also has the cool feature of being able to save the state of the OS. That might be a fun way to experiment.

Cheers!

I'll look into the VMware- that sounds interesting! My brother was looking at working for them recently, but he's just announced he's back at Sun again.

Thanks for the reply-
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