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Old 29th September 2014 | 17:58
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Saab Dastard
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BOAC,

Aim was to see hoew to create 5 partitions
A HDD partitioned using MBR can contain a maximum of 4 partitions, one of which may be an Extended partition, the rest must be Primary partitions. Within an Extended partition you may create Logical partitions.

Windows must have the boot files (io.sys, bootmgr, ntldr, etc.) on a primary partition, although the system files (Windows folder & subfolders) may be on any partition. It's possible that the system BIOS may also mandate a specific location for the boot files of the primary operating system.

It's not clear to me what the current partitioning scheme is (how many partitions, of what type), and where various boot files from various installations of Windows are located.

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