"R. C. White" wrote in message news:iK6dnU3Sg


Just like "the good old days" when there was only one disk with only one
partition. EVERYTHING was in Drive C: (letters A: and B: were reserved for
floppy disks).

But then we learned how to use multiple disks and to create multiple
partitions on each disk and... And it has been getting more complex ever
since. ;}


I recall (quite some time ago) an 'early Windows 7 adopter' educating me on
the purpose,
differences and nomenclature involved in the System and Boot volumes.

Now we've even more variation as hardware has evolved to support EFI, UEFI
with GPT.
- System Partition, MSR (Microsoft Reserved), Boot Partition and with the
option for a Recovery Partition for Windows RE. RE throws in some more
variation since its tools can be installed in the System, Boot (Windows), or
a separate Recovery Partition provided sufficient free hard drive space is
present in the desired location.

If RE is installed in the System Partition then additional constraints come
into play (located before all user partitions, sufficient space for the RE
tools. When installed on its own partition those same requirements change.


--
....Winston

p.s. Thanks for that earlier education!