Date: 04/12/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Let's say I have a friend named Eustace (for the sake of reference later on).

Eustace's primary hard drive recently committed seppuku, and he's bought a replacement. However, his copy of Windows XP isn't a bootable one. Eustace would like to change his boot order, drop a Knoppix CD into his secondary optical drive, boot this up, then put in his non-bootable Windows CD and install Windows that way (with the Windows CD in his primary optical drive, which will come first in the boot order).
Is this at all possible, or is Eustace up a creek without a boat?

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