-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the double post, forgot to finish a sentence.
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 15:38, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > There is the posibility that the partition that booted > before not to be the one containing the other(s) OS. > Take Windows 2k or XP: They can have their boot files on > the primary partition that is marked as bootable, but the > files on another partition (even on another drive). (I know > this for sure). > IIRC for my Windows 2k system, the Windows installation creates a bootsector on both the rootpartition _and_ the partition on which the /winnt directory is created. Unlike Debian, you don't have a choice :-( For older versions (95/98) I've had to recreate the bootsector. Note that for Windows NT/2k and maybe XP, the default installation is in /winnt, not /windows and I think you have the option of changing the name of the directory in which windows is installed (although most people will accept the default). To recreate the Windows 98 bootpartition, I used the shareware program bootpart (see http://www.winimage.com). If it's that 'easy' to create bootsectors, should it not be possible to look for signatures in the bootsectors of partitions themselves? (Although I guess they could be leftovers from deleted OSs.) Maybe the guy that developed this program could help... Regards, FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWHcKgm/Kwh6ICoQRAmW/AJ9YJTsnelYen0GvOLSuYtjp+yHSKgCggTfb 4WaUsJVy4MEsLZReIZ90DGY= =f+Of -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
