Re: Partitioning
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
[snip]
>
> DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies
> again). During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it
> switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them
> from drive C:. If these are not the same, weird things can happen
> (processing of config.sys of another partition, or refusing to load
> command.com because it has the wrong version number). The way DOS
> assigns drive letters is this:
>
> * All non-DOS partitions are completely ignored. This includes OS/2's
> hidden DOS partitions.
>
> * Each _active_ primary DOS partition on each subsequent drive is
> assigned the next drive letter, even if it is not the first primary
> DOS partition. If a drive has no active (DOS) partition, its _first_
> primary DOS partition is assigned a drive letter. If no primary DOS
> partition exists on the drive, no drive letter is assigned in this
> stage.
[snip]
It seems that NT probably does the same thing - if you happen to have an
OS/2 HPFS partition (id #9), then NT thinks it is an NTFS partition(id #9).
If you are unlucky, then this partition will be in such a place that it is
assigned drive letter C. NT will then get confused as it can't actually
understand what's on C: God, I *love* mount points - and I *loathe*, *hate*,
*despise* drive letters :-)
Adrian
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