If I do an MBR, with this being so quirky, am I apt to loose the partition table too?

This just really sucks. Partition Magic screwed everything up. Things were sort of working until then. Now,...

If I use my mobo disk to refresh the IDE drivers, maybe that will help?

What's going to happen if I use GHOST to do a disk to disk clone. Have it shut down into DOS. Pull out the old HD. ...

Yes, if by drivers you mean LAN, VIDEO, Modem, Printer?
Are there other?

What is your suggestion?

New, topic but still related to the past three.

I have been able to finally get W2K, by flashing the BIOS, installing each IDE device, one at a time, to now see them as a new setup and not as...

OS: Windows 2K.

New topic, but I think related to the topic I posted a few minutes ago.

I need to change positions of the IDE devices.
W2k & XP keep them persistent as how they were set up....

I am trying to install a new Master HDD in my sys. Copy old drive to it and have it be the default boot drive (dual boot).

But for simplicity sake, for now, just xfering over my old info and...