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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3495)	11/12/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: pae	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP, My understanding is C,E,F,G on the 7.6 and then D,H on the 3.2G. Right you are! Looks like the rule is to put the boot-able partitions first, then the extensions in associated boot-able order. I'll have to think about the implications to shortcuts implied. My NT exploration looks to be taking a back seat to getting this machine operational under Win98 and then overclocked. Perhaps I'll be better prepared as well. (I'm not giving up, but want to beat some value out of this expenditure before rejoining battle with NT.) Thanks, Paul

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3495)	11/13/1998 10:29:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>> I don't know what NT uses for the basis of drive mapping..boot sequence as reported by the mobo bios or primary/slave drive position. The NT loader is loaded by the bios, which is according to the boot sequence negotiated between the bios and the MB. Usually the first active primary partition on the master disk of the primary controller (subject to the MB and bios capabilities to alter this sequence). The point is, it's the same for all OSs. In this respect, boot monitors such as OS2 boot monitor should be thought of as OSs. Once the OS (or boot monitor) boots, it can determine for itself where the actual OS boots from. In NT's case, the drive mapping is applied to get at the NT system partition. The drive mapping is kept in the registry. The net of this is, for NT you "boot" nt loader (ntldr) without the drive mapping, but the mapping is applied early in NT's OS-specific booting process. It is NOT a good idea to map the partition with NT on it to a letter different from the one the bios would assign. Spots