Partitioning

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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?



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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?
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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
 
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?

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 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]
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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
 
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