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Explain the difference between the windows boot partition and the windows system partition?
The system partition is the active partition of the hard drive and it contains the OS boot record. The boot partition is the partition where the Windows operating system is stored.
What is the name of the folder on the windows 2000xp CD where the installations files are stored?
I386
What is another name for the active partition of the hard drive?
The active partition is the partition which is marked as Active in Index table. the status and locations of partitions are stored in MBR(master boot record). The active status tells the system which partition to boot from. System boots from the partition which contains the Operating System(windows XP, 2003.....). So the partition which contains the Operating System is Active partition and it is the Primary partition. So we can call the active partition as Bootable Partition or Primary Partition.
Why the boot partition and the system partition cannot be deleted?
On MS platforms, the system partition is used to hold the boot files. The boot partition holds all the windows operating system files. Leave it to Microsuck to mis-lable the partition hiearchy. The system partition holds what is loaded and executed first after the computer runs through its preliminary BIOS boot sequence. It tells the computer where to start loading the operating system from; the boot partition. The boot partition is where all the program files (thousands of them) needed by the operating system are stored. If the system partition is deleted; the computer will not find the operating system. If the boot partition is deleted, again; the computer will not find the operating system.
Is data stored on a partition formatted with FAT32 accessible only in Windows XP?
No. It should be accessible from any operating system that supports FAT32, including all versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Is the bootmgr file stored in the boot partition or the system partition?
the BootMgr file and the BCD file are stored in the system partition
What exactly is a windows laptop computer?
Windows laptop computer refers to the operating system in the computer. This operating system is where your virtual memory, task, and files are stored.
Where is the Boot.ini file stored?
Boot.ini files are required in booting Windows operating systems, starting with Windows NT. The boot.ini file also provides flexibility for dual booting multiple operating systems on the same computer.
Is the bootmgr file stored in the boot partition or system partition?
system partition
What is the name of the folder on the Windows 2000xp CD where the installation files stored?
In A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC Sixth Edition, Page 59 of Chapter 2 "What an Operating System Does" You will find it says: "The data is stored in a file on the hard drive called a SWAP file or PAGE file. The Windows 2000/XP swap file is Pagefile.sys, and the Windows 9x/Me swap file is Win386.swp."
Im trying to format my hard drive but i cant delete the partition for windows xp?
If you are sure you want to delete the windows xp partition then you can use the windows CD to do the job.Boot the machine with the CD in the drive and you should get the option to format the drive.Just be sure this is what you want as you will lose all your data stored on the drive.
Where is the operating system stored in the computer?
The Operating System is located in a folder on one of the hard drives usually C:\. This is one \Windows\System32 and \Windows\winsxs. System32 is where the main operating system is but the manafest files are in winsxs.
