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Bill Cunningham

If I wanted to copy my xp loader to a first boot sector to load an OS
windows or something else, what would I have to move?

Bill
 
That is a pretty confusing question! Without really knowing what you
are trying to accomplish, to boot a Windows NT/2000/XP installation you
need at least three files: ntldr, boot.ini and NTDETECT.COM. You may
need other files if you use SCSI or RAID. Other files would be required
to boot non NT operating systems. What exactly are you trying to do?

John
 
John John said:
That is a pretty confusing question! Without really knowing what you are
trying to accomplish, to boot a Windows NT/2000/XP installation you need
at least three files: ntldr, boot.ini and NTDETECT.COM. You may need
other files if you use SCSI or RAID. Other files would be required to
boot non NT operating systems. What exactly are you trying to do?

John
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As far as I understand, winxp installs its bootloader on the master boot
record. If I had another OS installed on another partition could I move the
bootloader to the first sector of that partition. This is kind of a silly
question because the loader would work fine from the mbr. But say I didn't
want it there but another loader like lilo or grub .

Bill
 
Bill said:
As far as I understand, winxp installs its bootloader on the master boot
record. If I had another OS installed on another partition could I move the
bootloader to the first sector of that partition. This is kind of a silly
question because the loader would work fine from the mbr. But say I didn't
want it there but another loader like lilo or grub .

Bill
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Then you just install another boot manager like LILO or GRUB and it will
displace the ntldr boot manager from the MBR. Simply putting the other
manager's files in the root directory where ntldr is wont do, the Master
Boot Record has to be rewritten to point to the new boot manager. These
boot utilities have the necessary tools to accomplish this.

John
 
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