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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5994)	2/6/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>> (From Sean): NT seems to want to modify the visible primary partitions is sees regardless of where you install it. It means NT replaces the boot sector on the current boot partition no matter where you install it. You then get a dual boot with whatever that boot sector was booting before, like it or not. Normally this is the active partition of the C drive, or was before these smart-ass bioses showed up that let you change the drive. But it still goes after the boot sector of the active primary partition of the boot drive that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. The previous boot sector gets saved in bootsect.dos (this is the partition boot sector, not the master boot record).