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  2. Multi-booting - Wikipedia

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    There are some advantages to installing a Linux boot manager/loader (usually GRUB) as the primary bootloader pointed to by the master boot record. Windows operating systems will be found by properly installed Linux bootloaders, but Windows boot managers do not recognize Linux installations (nor does Windows deal natively with Linux file systems ...

  3. Volume boot record - Wikipedia

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    Some dual-boot systems, such as NTLDR (the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft's Windows NT-derived operating systems up to and including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003), take copies of the bootstrap code that individual operating systems install into a single partition's VBR and store them in disc files, loading the relevant VBR ...

  4. Ranish Partition Manager - Wikipedia

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    Ranish Partition Manager is a freeware hard disk partition editor, disk cloning utility, and boot manager, that gives a high level of control for creating multi-boot systems. [1] [2] It is available on the freeware live CD SystemRescueCD and the Ultimate Boot CD (not the Windows version).

  5. BartPE - Wikipedia

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    BartPE is known to have certain incompatibilities with the Windows XP CDs shipped with most Dell PCs. The Dell versions include changes to the Windows setup files that can cause the BartPE build process to fail. Two patches are currently available to correct the known problems, one to replace SETUPREG.HIV and the other to load a standard iastor ...

  6. NTLDR - Wikipedia

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    The boot manager part has been completely rewritten; it no longer uses boot.ini as a configuration file, although the bootcfg utility for modifying boot.ini is still present for the case of multi-boot configurations with Windows versions up to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

  7. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Movie Maker Sample File, which was a short video file consisting of clips of a male child riding a tricycle, playing in a playground, and then running in a field, is no longer generated by Windows Movie Player 2.1 when it is started for the first time, as was the case with Windows Movie Maker 1.1 in the original and Service Pack 1 ...

  8. Windows Support Tools - Wikipedia

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    They are located on the Windows Installation CD, Support folder, Tools subfolder. [1] They can also be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center. [2] Windows Server 2003 Support Tools includes 70 different tools. [3] For instance, WinDiff is a GUI tool for comparing files and folders. [4] [5] NetDiag is a CLI tool for diagnosing network ...

  9. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    It is no longer possible to safely relocate the profiles directory (C:\Users) to another partition without using unsupported methods. Microsoft recommends against moving the user profile folder. In Windows XP, the WinNT.sif file allowed relocating "Documents and Settings" to another partition than C: before Windows installation completed.