"Gary T. Corcoran" wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin wrote:
> > The partition number does not really matter, what really matters is
> > that Windows wants to be in the very first tracks of the disk. This
> > is legacy left from DOS which always had the same mania.
>
> While this may have once been true, I don't believe it holds for modern
> versions of Windows. That is, at least for Win98 and Win2000.
> Whether the kluge known as Windows NT (4) still has that requirement I
> don't know. In any event, unless you have a specific requirement to use
It does. More interesting, if asked to be installed in non-first
partition it still silently installs itself in the geometrically
first partition on the disk (and then don't boot because it sets up
its boot loader to boot from the partition it was asked too).
-SB
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