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= <span id="KB100525"></span>Definition of System and Boot Partition =<br />
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Article ID: 100525<br />
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Article Last Modified on 2/20/2007<br />
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* Microsoft Windows 2000 Server<br />
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server<br />
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition<br />
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition<br />
* Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1<br />
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For a Microsoft Windows XP version of this article, see [[../314470|314470]].<br /><br />
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== SUMMARY ==<br />
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The names commonly used for the partitions containing Windows startup and operating system files are for the system and boot partitions, respectively.<br />
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== MORE INFORMATION ==<br />
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=== System Partition ===<br />
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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.<br />
=== Boot Partition ===<br />
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The boot partition contains the Windows operating system files (usually \WINNT) and it support files (usually \WINNT\SYSTEM32). It can be the same partition as the system partition.<br />
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