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Replacing the boot drive, w/o reinstalling Windows and the apps?
"Bill Blanton" wrote in message
... | | "PCR" wrote in message ... | "Bill in Co." wrote in message | ... | | | Item#2: The old drive showed this information in BING, some of which | I | | don't understand: | | | | Partitions: Type: File | | System: | | ROOT DRIVE Partition FAT32 12/Ch: FAT32 | | MBR1 Entry1 Partition Extended 15/Fh: Extended | | NONAME Volume FAT32 11/Bh: FAT32 | | I am guessing that those hex values are based on the specific type of the | | partition. | | | | My new drive has two FAT32 partitions, with File System: 12/Ch: FAT32. | | Maybe 11/Bh means a "Volume" in the old drive. That must be it. | | Yes. Note 11 is decimal for "B" in hex. They are all like that. | | If a primary partition, 0xB is used for systems that don't support int 0x13 | extentions (8GB), and 0xC is for systems that do. Only important to the | loader code, fwiu, and are both equal otherwise. I see. But I can't quite recall what my numbers are. Let me see whether they are in a Partinfo... "File System ID: 0xC" & "File System ID: 0xB" & "File System ID: 0xC" & "File System ID: 0xB" four more times. ....It looks to me all my Primaries are "0xC", & all my Volumes are "0xB". This is in keeping with only the Primaries may boot, as you said. | | | | Item#3: | | | | PCR, you left out some useful settings in BING. Specifically, I would | | also check the "Limit Primaries" checkbox, which limits the HD to 4 primary | | partitions, so that it will be compatible with other partitioning programs. | | Yeah, I definetly wouldn't go there. The only "use", I can think of is | if you want to be able to multi-boot more than 4 OSs that require themselves | to be loaded from a primary partition. Even then, I would try to work around | it. I am still in agreement, but more out of cowardice than what you said. | | | Well, you are right, for perfect compatibility to Windows, it is | imperative to limit primaries-- 4 per hard drive. That is what I have | done, BUT I do not recall pressing a button for it. I THINK it was the | default. | | It asks when you install if you want to "limit parimarys". Or if you don't | install, it will ask when you try to create primary #5 PHEW! That one is not checked by default, & I never checked it! So, I was beginning to wonder about the possible implications, now that Colorado made me go look. Hitherto, I presumed it wouldn't come into play, until BING were installed &/or one did go above four. I suppose I have no EMBR! I do know I am running from a native BIOS boot off a partition that was created in BING & shrunk. If it's good enough for that, it's good enough for me. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR |
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