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| booting windows off a secondary or slave drive i've seen a 1994 post that says DOS won't boot from a secondary drive. Does Win9X boot off a Secondary drive? Off a slave(master or secondary)? what about Win NT/2k/XP? out of interest, does Win 3.1 only boot off a primary master?      |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive Windows boots from the 1st ACTIVE partition it sees. Anon wrote: > > i've seen a 1994 post that says DOS won't boot from a secondary drive. > > Does Win9X boot off a Secondary drive? Off a slave(master or secondary)? > what about Win NT/2k/XP? > > out of interest, does Win 3.1 only boot off a primary master? |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive Windows boots from the 1st ACTIVE partition it sees. Anon wrote: > > i've seen a 1994 post that says DOS won't boot from a secondary drive. > > Does Win9X boot off a Secondary drive? Off a slave(master or secondary)? > what about Win NT/2k/XP? > > out of interest, does Win 3.1 only boot off a primary master? |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive Win9x = No; must be primary drive. Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive. -- DaveW "Anon" <q_q_anonymous******.co.uk> wrote in message news:61f945bb.0409131113.1522dd95@posting.google.c om... > i've seen a 1994 post that says DOS won't boot from a secondary drive. > > Does Win9X boot off a Secondary drive? Off a slave(master or secondary)? > what about Win NT/2k/XP? > > out of interest, does Win 3.1 only boot off a primary master? |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive Win9x = No; must be primary drive. Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive. -- DaveW "Anon" <q_q_anonymous******.co.uk> wrote in message news:61f945bb.0409131113.1522dd95@posting.google.c om... > i've seen a 1994 post that says DOS won't boot from a secondary drive. > > Does Win9X boot off a Secondary drive? Off a slave(master or secondary)? > what about Win NT/2k/XP? > > out of interest, does Win 3.1 only boot off a primary master? |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message news:<Z2q1d.42993$D%.832@attbi_s51>... > Win9x = No; must be primary drive. > Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive. > > -- > DaveW will win9x boot off a primary slave's primary partition? secondary partition? does xp boot off any drive (primary drive or secondary drive , master or slave, primary partition or secondary partition)? thanks |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message news:<Z2q1d.42993$D%.832@attbi_s51>... > Win9x = No; must be primary drive. > Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive. > > -- > DaveW will win9x boot off a primary slave's primary partition? secondary partition? does xp boot off any drive (primary drive or secondary drive , master or slave, primary partition or secondary partition)? thanks |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive DOS (Win3.1), Win9x,ME,NT,2000,XP all boot from primary master drive, primary partition (which MS refers it as system partition). However, you can install Win9x,ME,NT,2000,XP to another partition (which MS refers it as boot partition), primary slave drive, or secondary master or slave drive. To create multiple boot system, you have to use your primary drive primary paration as system paration and format as C: in FAT16 format (depended on which OSes you install). DOS, Win3.1, WIN95: Support FAT16 only Win98, ME: Support FAT16 and FAT32 WinNT: Support FAT16, NTFS4 Win2000/XP: Support FAT16, FAT32, NTFS4, NTFS5 That means the following files must be in C: drive. DOS/Win31: ------------------- COMMAND.COM MSDOS.SYS IO.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS WinNT/2000/XP: ----------------------- BOOTSECT.DOS BOOT.INI NTLDR NTDETECT.COM Eric http://pcsupport.xstudio.ca "Anon" <q_q_anonymous******.co.uk> wrote in message news:61f945bb.0409140846.62569110@posting.google.c om... > "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message news:<Z2q1d.42993$D%.832@attbi_s51>... > > Win9x = No; must be primary drive. > > Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive. > > > > -- > > DaveW > > > will win9x boot off a primary slave's primary partition? > secondary partition? > > does xp boot off any drive (primary drive or secondary drive , master > or slave, primary partition or secondary partition)? > > thanks |
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| Re: booting windows off a secondary or slave drive DOS (Win3.1), Win9x,ME,NT,2000,XP all boot from primary master drive, primary partition (which MS refers it as system partition). However, you can install Win9x,ME,NT,2000,XP to another partition (which MS refers it as boot partition), primary slave drive, or secondary master or slave drive. To create multiple boot system, you have to use your primary drive primary paration as system paration and format as C: in FAT16 format (depended on which OSes you install). DOS, Win3.1, WIN95: Support FAT16 only Win98, ME: Support FAT16 and FAT32 WinNT: Support FAT16, NTFS4 Win2000/XP: Support FAT16, FAT32, NTFS4, NTFS5 That means the following files must be in C: drive. DOS/Win31: ------------------- COMMAND.COM MSDOS.SYS IO.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS WinNT/2000/XP: ----------------------- BOOTSECT.DOS BOOT.INI NTLDR NTDETECT.COM Eric http://pcsupport.xstudio.ca "Anon" <q_q_anonymous******.co.uk> wrote in message news:61f945bb.0409140846.62569110@posting.google.c om... > "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message news:<Z2q1d.42993$D%.832@attbi_s51>... > > Win9x = No; must be primary drive. > > Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive. > > > > -- > > DaveW > > > will win9x boot off a primary slave's primary partition? > secondary partition? > > does xp boot off any drive (primary drive or secondary drive , master > or slave, primary partition or secondary partition)? > > thanks |
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