Re: Boot.ini question

"Gerhard Fiedler" enscribed:
Aren't there BIOS/controllers that don't boot from all disks connected to
them, yet these disks may still have rdisk numbers and allow starting
Windows on them?


This ends with a question mark, but it sure ain't a sentence. What is it?

*TimDaniels*
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