> From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [newbie] moving drives
> While it's possible in some cases to run windoze on a partition
> other than hda1, it's certainly not the norm,
True.
>and almost always won't work. Windoze won't tolerate it,
Not (quite) true.
You can do this with Partition Magic. I have a HD with WinNT, Win98, and
Win2K (with separate boot and system drives), all on different
partitions, as well as a couple of data-only partitions. And all work
perfectly (you can only 1 OS at a time, obviously, and the non-active
OSes are marked as hidden, so you won't see that partition). Using PM's
Boot Manager, I also get a choice of my Mandrake Linux on hdb.
(granted, Windows won't run from anything but hda. Supposedly, if you
use System Commander, you can run Windows from non-hda)
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 242 1943833+ 16 Hidden FAT16
/dev/hda2 243 650 3277260 1b Hidden Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda3 651 1101 3622657+ 1c Hidden Win95 FAT32
(LBA)
/dev/hda4 1102 4981 31166100 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1102 2376 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 2377 3551 9438156 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 3552 4981 11486443+ b Win95 FAT32
hda1 = WinNT Workstation 4 (yes, formatted as FAT16)
hda2 = Win98
hda3 = Win2K boot partition
hda4 = entry for extended partition
hda5 = Win2K system partition (not that it's running in a non-primary
partition)
hda6 = NTFS-formatted data partition for WinNT
hda7 = FAT32-formatted data partition for Win2K
