Windows booting problem

I have two hard drives. They both have installs of Windows XP on. I choose which one I boot to when I start up. Which is fine.

Except that the primary drive is about an inch from death. And if I take it out then the secondary drive doesn't boot at all - presumably because the boot record is on the primary drive.

A quick google indicates that I should boot to a recovery console and fun "fixboot" - however, when booting off the secondary drive, the drive with everything on it is labelled "I:" - if I fix the boot record, is this likely to stay the same, or will it suddenly be the C drive?

I'd like to have some idea of what I'm in for before I destroy my machine...

The record industry is dead

IN 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. “That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,” says a person who was there.

here

Note, also, that all of the Big 4 record distributors are now releasing their music DRM free in the US via Amazon. The world seems to have become a fraction saner...

Useful for family IT Support

I needed to set up some stuff on my Dad's PC, and struggled to find a solution for letting me take control of his machine from a distance that wouldn't require some know-how on his behalf, or the opening of ports, etc.

And I came across Show My PC, which appears to be a version of VNC, bundled with a nice wrapper around it, plus some internet servers to bounce the signal off of, for those people that are behind NAT at both ends, and a session ID generator, to stop you having to worry about IP addresses and similar.

Worked like a dream, first time, and got me up and running within 30 seconds of downloading it.