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

[Jan Claeys]

Op vrijdag 27-04-2007 om 21:34 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Paul
Cobbaut:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 27-04-2007 om 10:20 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Paul
> > Cobbaut:
> >>
> >> The system partition (ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com) must be
> >> the active primary partition (*).
> > 
> > As 'ntldr' is de NT bootloader, this is clearly the boot 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. 
> > 
> > This partition contains the (operating) system, so I would call it the
> > system partition...

> i agree with you, but Microsoft does not:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314470 

Well, this isn't windows-be at lists.microsoft but
ubuntu-be at lists.ubuntu   ;-)

But seriously, these MS names are really unlogical, and they don't
change what I was saying about partition naming under Windows.

-- 
Jan Claeys