Re: problems with sysinstall

From: Terry Lambert (tlambert2_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 10/30/03

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To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>

    Doug White wrote:
    > I don't know how WinXP's bootblocks are set up, but I have this setup on
    > Win2k and it works as expected with boot0.

    They are set up to boot directly from NTFS. An NTFS without a small
    FAT/FAT16/FAT32 partition for initial load will prevent the boot
    selector code from booting Windows XP.

    FWIW, I use a small FAT32 partition in conjuction with BootMagic
    (from the PartitionMagic folks) with my dual boot XP systems (I
    have two of them).

    -- Terry
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