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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?

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?

Win9x = No; must be primary drive.
Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive.

--
DaveW



"Anon" <> wrote in message
news: 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?

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:28:58 GMT, "DaveW" <> wrote:

>Win9x = No; must be primary drive.
>Win XP = Will boot off secondary drive.


XP 'appears' to boot from the secondary drive, there are boot files on the C
drive that are necessary to support booting from the secondary.

(Anon) wrote in
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> 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?

I boot Win98 off my secondary hard drive with the help of XOSL-

http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm

The manual is included in the download.
I decided if this guy can use it to boot 37 OS, I could use it to boot
3 or 4.

http://www.maximumpc.com/features/fe...002-09-24.html


--
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

"DaveW" <> 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

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" <> wrote in message
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> "DaveW" <> 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