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Why when installing windows 7 it's getting 200MB space for system partition?
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∙ 14y ago
If you have connected more than two hard drives (non-RAID), W7 created a special partition for the system stability. You can trick the system, and disconnect all hard drives except the system one. After you are done installing the system, you can connect the other drives again and not having the 200 mb partition.
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You are installing a 2nd HDD with another OS do you need to partition?
All hard drives must have at least one partition to be usable by an operating system, even if the partition uses the entire drive. If you are installing an operating dissimilar from the one you are using currently (ie. Windows XP and FreeBSD), you should partition the disk from that system's installer, not in Windows.
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.
When installing windows 7 as a dual boot installation with another operating system it is recommended to keep windows 7 on the same partition as the other operating system true or false?
false
What file system is used by Windows 2000 and XP?
If you are installing windows XP with Windows 9x or me than the I would recommend you to use FAT32 as if you use NTFS than you wont be able to access Windows XP with NTFS partition. If you are installing Windows XP with Windows NT or Windows 2000 than you can use any partition type. But I would recommend to use NTFS.
Which partition of Windows 2000XP must be the active partition of the hardware?
Must be at least a 2 GB partition. System partition.
Windows 2000 xp is installed using a system partition and a boot partition which of this partition must be the active partition of the hardrive?
The boot partition
Can Windows XP and Windows 7 be installed on the same partition?
It is not possible to install any Operating System next to another on the same partition. To dual-boot Windows 7 and Windows XP, first install Windows 7, and while in the partition manager, delete all partitions and create one for Windows 7 and one for Windows XP. Then install Windows 7 to it's partition. Then install XP to it's partition. You should now be able to boot either Operating System. Note: You must install XP after Windows 7 as the Windows 7 installation wizard would want to upgrade XP. WARNING: This will erase all of the data on your hard drive. Be sure to back up all of your files before installing anything.
What partition hosts the main Windows 7 operating system files?
root partition
What is the partition where the Windows 2000XP operating system is stored?
boot partitionThe boot partition is the disk partition that contains the Windows operating system files and its support files, but not any files responsible for booting.
When setting windows 7 when should hard drive be partition?
Always should the drive be partitioned. As NTFS for Windows 7. You can edit partitions while installing Windows through the installation menu or command prompt, or in diskmanager after the operating system is installed.
In a windows 2000 xp is installed using a system partition and a boot partition Which of the partitions must be the active partition of the hard drive?
boot partition
How do you get more partitions?
when installing your operating system you will create them, BE CAREFUL with out a program like partition magic, once you partition a Hard drive it is permanent.
