Re: partitioning and use thereof

On 10/8/21 4:56 PM, Paul wrote:
> It would be near impossible to do that on GPT, because the installer 
> has "weed-like" behavior then.
Ah.  So the difference is how Windows installer works with PC/BIOS/DOS 
partition tables vs GPT partition tables.  That makes sense.  If memory 
serves, I think that GPT became the default with Windows Vista.

> To do it on GPT, requires a sacrificial install and some cloning-over. 
> Which is cheating, but might still be do-able. The above procedure 
> was more straight-forward.

I don't know if it's cheating per se, or if it's just outsmarting 
Windows and making it do what you want it to do.

Aside:  I wonder what the fixboot / fixmbr commands would do after such 
a clone.



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