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by chabbaah

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what is the difference between the system partition and the boot partition and how do look up those folders in explorer in windows 2000

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by srineer

They are not folders. and most systems combine the boot and system partition and have a second partition (Drive Letter) as the Data storage.

by thechas

When you have multiple partitions, they show up as multiple drives in Windows Explorer.

If you only have 1 drive, then you only have 1 partition on your hard drive.

The boot partition is usually the C: drive. By strict definition, the boot partition is the first "active" primary partition on the first physical drive.
The boot partition does not have to have all of the system files.

The system partition is the drive that has the bulk of the files for the operating "SYSTEM".
(the Windows 2000 files)

Chas

by quintar51

system partition is where your boot files are kept, ie ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.

boot partition is where your O/S system files are kept, ie windows, winnt

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