boot partition

Posted: 06-26-2006, 05:20 AM
I have dual booted operating systems for years, for one reason or another. I
use a small FAT partition for my boot drive c:, which makes it easy to
replace and or edit boot files if need be.
With operating systems from vista onwards I take it this will not be
possible any more?


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Peter M
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Re: boot partition
Posted: 06-26-2006, 05:25 AM
Indeed.. Vista requires NTFS as I understand it.

"Steve" <noodle59@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have dual booted operating systems for years, for one reason or another.
>I use a small FAT partition for my boot drive c:, which makes it easy to
>replace and or edit boot files if need be.
> With operating systems from vista onwards I take it this will not be
> possible any more?
>
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Michael Cecil
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Posted: 06-26-2006, 05:57 AM
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:25:49 -0400, "Peter M" <pmcneil1@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>Indeed.. Vista requires NTFS as I understand it.
Of course, it is an artificial requirement just like XP not creating FAT32
drivers over 32GB in size.
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Colin Barnhorst
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Posted: 06-26-2006, 06:14 AM
Why do say it is artificial? The security features of NTFS are the biggest
reason.

"Michael Cecil" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:25:49 -0400, "Peter M" <pmcneil1@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>
>>Indeed.. Vista requires NTFS as I understand it.
>
> Of course, it is an artificial requirement just like XP not creating FAT32
> drivers over 32GB in size.
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Re: boot partition
Posted: 06-26-2006, 09:50 AM
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:14:05 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
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>Why do say it is artificial? The security features of NTFS are the biggest
>reason.
Artificial, because you can convert the NTFS drive(s) Vista is installed
upon with a 3rd party tool to FAT32 and it works just fine. Of course,
you lose the NTFS security functionality but there's no inherent reason it
can't run on FAT32.
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Re: boot partition
Posted: 06-26-2006, 10:08 AM
I think you guys misunderstood me, my boot partition is only for boot files,
i.e boot.ini, config.sys, ntldr and so on. C: drive is only 500mb fat 16.
D: drive is ntfs os drive.

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> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:14:05 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
> <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>Why do say it is artificial? The security features of NTFS are the
>>biggest
>>reason.
>
> Artificial, because you can convert the NTFS drive(s) Vista is installed
> upon with a 3rd party tool to FAT32 and it works just fine. Of course,
> you lose the NTFS security functionality but there's no inherent reason it
> can't run on FAT32.
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Re: boot partition
Posted: 06-26-2006, 08:20 PM
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:20:15 +1000, "Steve" <noodle59@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>I have dual booted operating systems for years, for one reason or another. I
>use a small FAT partition for my boot drive c:, which makes it easy to
>replace and or edit boot files if need be.
>With operating systems from vista onwards I take it this will not be
>possible any more?
>
It'll still work. As long as Vista setup sees an active primary
partition on the bootable disk, it's satisfied.
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