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Windows 2000 require you to re-install the boot loader if you change the
FAT type (FAT16 or FAT32) of the system partition. Parted will warn you
before attempting to do this. To re-install the boot loader, do:
- Boot off the Windows 2000 CD.
- It will ask if you want to proceed installing. Hit Enter.
- It will then ask you if you want to install a new system, or
Repair an existing system. Choose the later (by pressing "R").
- It will ask you if you want to do an automatic repair, or if you want
to use the recovery console. Choose to use the recovery console.
- At the console, type:
C:\>fixboot
The system should boot successfully now.
The NT/2000 boot loader also needs:
- its own boot sector code in a PRIMARY FAT12, FAT16 or NTFS
partition (FAT32 possible with Windows 2000), which is called the
"system partition". This partition should be marked with the "boot"
flag in Parted.
- the files NTLDR, BOOT.INI and NTDETECT.COM within the system
partition. BOOT.INI holds the information about the physical location
of the primary partition or logical drive where Windows NT was installed
to, called the "boot partition". The boot partition and system
partition may be located together in one primary partition.
- optionally, the file NTBOOTDD.SYS within the system partition,
which is the renamed disk driver for your SCSI or IDE controller, when
this has no own BIOS (or its BIOS can't access large disks).
- with MS Windows NT, the system partition should end before cylinder
1024, and must start before cylinder 1024. If it ends after
cylinder 1024 and the files necessary to boot are moved past this border
MS Windows NT won't start anymore!
- both the boot and system partition may be resized, without the need
for any other changes.
- if the boot partition's number changes (i.e. its minor number),
then the BOOT.INI has to be updated.
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