boot partition

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?

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?
>

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.
--
Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/

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:
>

>
> Of course, it is an artificial requirement just like XP not creating FAT32
> drivers over 32GB in size.
> --
> Michael Cecil
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
> http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/

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.
--
Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/

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.

"Michael Cecil" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:14:05 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
> <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote:
>

>
> 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.
> --
> Michael Cecil
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
> http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/

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.

I'm not sure you can set it up that way, but my XP partition is FAT32,
and Vista placed its Boot Configuration Data store on that FAT32
drive. It works very nicely. Of course, Vista, itself, is installed
on a separate logical drive on an NTFS partition.

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:08:37 +1000, "Steve" <noodle59@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>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.
>
>"Michael Cecil" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:bs7v92hsvftlv17om52frajpoomia6ih97@4ax.com.. .

>

Since Windows 64-bit systems don't anything 16bit, I hope you are installing
Vista86 not Vista64. Just a guess.

"milleron" <millerDOT90@SPAMLESSosu.edu> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure you can set it up that way, but my XP partition is FAT32,
> and Vista placed its Boot Configuration Data store on that FAT32
> drive. It works very nicely. Of course, Vista, itself, is installed
> on a separate logical drive on an NTFS partition.
>
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:08:37 +1000, "Steve" <noodle59@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>