On Thu, 29 May 2008 23:10:16 +0100, "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote:

> Ken
>
> Your correct and as you say they are misnomers. I will have to avoid
> these terms as they mislead us mere mortals.


I'm with you entirely. Rather than use the "correct" term, I prefer to
just not use either term.



> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:06:57 +0100, "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> >> A windows partition is also called the system partition.
> >> It contains the operating system.
> >
> >
> > Gerry, read here:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q100525
> >
> > Microsoft's nomenclature is very strange. Although one expect the
> > System Partition to be the one Windows is installed on, Microsoft
> > calls that the "Boot Partition." The System Partition "refers to the
> > disk volume containing hardware specific files needed to boot Windows
> > (NTLDR, BOOT.INI, and so on). On Intel x86-based machines, it must be
> > a primary partition that has been marked active. On x86 machines, this
> > is always drive 0, the drive the system BIOS searches during system
> > boot for the operating system."
> >
> > It sounds backwards to me, but that's the way it is.
>

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