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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5855)	2/4/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>Primary partitions The bios will only boot a primary partition (even if you use a boot manager, the bios boots the boot manager). DOS will only see 1 primary partition on a drive. I THINK the same is true for 95/98, but I'm not positive of that. NT, however, can see multiple primary partitions. The bios boots the primary partition on the boot device that is marked "Active". FDISK or NT Disk Manager can mark a partition active (and probably PM). So, if you have more than one primary partition, you can change which partition will be booted. You only need an OS on the active primary partition of the boot drive. A sort of manual boot manager. In your case you have two possible boot drives, so each one has an OS on its active primary partition. Wouldn't have to if you never booted it, though.