On Monday 30 August 2004 11:14 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote: > Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it > will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting > from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this > by (I think) having the bios report the drives in a swapped fashion. > SBM is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
Not totally correct. Windows NT, 2000, XP can all boot from drives other than C: or the first drive in the system. 16 bit versions or versions that contain 16 bit legacy code, such as 95, 98, ME, etc. will only boot from the C: drive. Now, the BIOS will expect to find a boot loader on the hard drive that you tell it is the primary boot device, but that can be any drive in the system, not necessarily the first one. -- Bryan Phinney
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