[Ubuntu-be] C D E ... Microsoft partitions

Paul Cobbaut paul at cobbaut.be
Fri Apr 27 09:20:34 BST 2007


Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op donderdag 26-04-2007 om 14:26 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Y P:
>> - One last example to argumentate about this: if you got 2 hds, under
>> W$ hda/sda = C: and hdb/sdb = D: 
> 
> That's wrong: by default the boot partition is always C:, even if it
> would be, say, '/dev/sdg' in linux, other disks are named using a scheme
> that's often very confusing and might even change.
> 

Sorry to go off topic on this list. You are confusing Windows NT/200x/XP
boot and system partition.

The system partition (ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com) must be
the active primary partition (*).

The boot partition (with the winnt or windows folder) can be anything
else (but is usually the same in a single-boot), even a dynamic volume.

paul

(*) unless bootmanagers load another mbr

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