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from: `Julian Thomas`
date: 2004-12-05 17:15:58
subject: Re: OT: Windows install/boot partitions was HAM-BOX BBS

In , on 12/06/04 
   at 05:26 AM, Stewart Buckingham  typed:

>Kris, appreciated. If any Windows needs to boot from C: then I can't see 
>much point of putting parts of the os on another partition at all. Seems 
>crazy to have 2 partitions to backup the os. So, would you know why they 
>do that?

One valid (and not terribly stupid) reason would be to be able to boot
more than one version of windows on the same system.
 
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