My IDE setup is as follows: My old HD with Win2K on is master and my new(=fast) HD with XP is slave, on the same IDE ribbon. FS resides in a partition of the new HD and is run in XP.I consider swapping master ans slave in an effort to ensure that I get the last ounce of performance out of the system, hence I intend to cut the boot.ini from Win2K paste it in XP, shut down, swap master and slave and then reboot. I also intend to change drive names to their original ones with PartitionMagic so as to keep the O/S aware of where everything is.Does anyone have any word of advice or caution, or is it safe to carry out this operation the way that I described above?Thank you all in advance,

DON'T DO IT. Because if you only copy and paste the boot.ini you can't boot youre computer any more. I had done the same 2 month's ago but i lost everything on my harddisk and it took weeks before windows was installed again, professional computer guys also didn't get windows on it again. It all works now again but if you want to have the boot.ini on the other harddisk, then you also have to copy some other files and i don't know which.Sven van Rijn :-wave P4 2,8GHz - 1024Mb DDR - Nvidia FX5600 - 120Gb harddisk - DVD&CD writer :-ufo2

Hi Sven,Thanks for the answer, i think I will avoid this after all since i have no clue what other files might be needed. On a side note, did you try to reswap master and slave after the failed attempt to boot? My guess is that then everything would have been normal again.Regards,

I did not try that. I don't know what made my computer working again but i do know that you have to be really careful with computers. So if you decide to do it, ask someone for help: some one who knows what to do exactly.Sven van Rijn :-waveP4 2,8GHz - 1024Mb DDR - Nvidia FX5600 - 120Gb harddisk - DVD&CD writer :-ufo2