Prev: Text Browser
Next: running schtasks as system user do not bring up the GUI of the launched application
From: vjp2.at on 11 May 2010 23:25
If XP is already installed, do you have to remove it in order to setup
a zero-sector DOS BOOT or do any of the partition programs move stuff
out of the zero sector?



- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]



From: John John - MVP on 12 May 2010 07:24
vjp2.at(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> If XP is already installed, do you have to remove it in order to setup
> a zero-sector DOS BOOT or do any of the partition programs move stuff
> out of the zero sector?

What exactly are you wanting to do, and what exactly do you mean by
"zero-sector DOS BOOT"? Sector 0 always holds the Master Boot Record
(MBR) which holds bootstrap code as well as the partition table.

John
From: smlunatick on 12 May 2010 09:51
On May 12, 4:25 am, vjp2...(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> If XP is already installed, do you have to remove it in order to setup
> a zero-sector DOS BOOT or do any of the partition programs move stuff
> out of the zero sector?
>
>                                     - = -
>  Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
>                    http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
>   ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed..}---
>    [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
>  [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]

If you are attempting to install a boot manager prior to installing
another operating system, you will need to make sure that:

1) Backup your info

2) From XP, do a complete "clean" re-install, after installing the
boot manager

3) Or use a separate third party partition utility which would let
you:
-- Shrink the existing XP partition (to make unallocated space)
-- Move the partition (so as to make the "unallocated" space
at the
beginning of the drive)
-- Create the DOS partition for the boot manager
 | 
Pages: 1
Prev: Text Browser
Next: running schtasks as system user do not bring up the GUI of the launched application