Hi, Winston.

Yes, I was curious about your "Boomer is Missing" post. My first thought
was "Boomer! Sooner!" ;^}

You caught up quickly on those multiple partitions, and then zoomed on ahead
into the UEFI and Win7/8 changes. After getting comfy with the WinNT4 to
WinXP system, it took me a "generation" to transition to Vista's BCD system.
When Win7 introduced the new partition arrangement, I didn't bother to learn
it very well; I just kept using the multiple partitions on multiple drives
that I had learned when I first started dual-booting with WinNT4/Windows 95
back in '98. Each of my bootable HDDs has a small (10 GB is SMALL?) primary
partition as a System Partition, with the rest of the disk in an extended
partition divided into multiple logical drives. These logical drives get
deleted/recreated/reformatted/renamed/re-lettered from time to time. This
was especially true during the years of beta-testing Vista and Win7. Since
my MVP days are over, I haven't been as energetic in creating and
maintaining all those drives. (I'm using only 16 drive letters now. g
With 4 internal HDDs, a 3 TB USB3 external disk, booting mostly from a 120
GB SSD. Plus removable USB sticks and SD cards now and then.) My year-old
mobo does have UEFI and I did have to learn enough about GPT to access the
full 3 TB, but that was a one-time exercise - which I'd have to relearn to
do it again.

But I haven't bought a pre-configured computer in over 20 years so I have
never used Microsoft's new partition scheme. All this discussion of the
Recovery Partition and such (like special partitions from Dell, HP, etc.)
simply goes over my head. (What's Windows RE? Recovery Environment?) When
I need to know all that, I know whom to ask. ;)

Happy Thanksgiving! This morning we had our first mild freeze, about 29
degrees.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) in Win8.1 Pro


"...winston" wrote in message ...

"R. C. White" wrote in message
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Hi, Winston.

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.

p.s. RC, thanks for that earlier education...it's come in quite handy since
then.
p.p.s. Ignore that other post...missed my spell checker changing the
subject - 'Bootmgr to Boomer' g

--
...winston