As far as I know Win7 introduces a new Bootmanager system.
At old WinXP times the bootmanager was put into the first bootable partition on the first hard disc.
This partition could contain the actual Windows XP itself in addition.
From Win7 times on Bootmanager should be installed in a separate (only 100 MB small) additional primary partition.
When booting the system at first this Bootmanager "meta" partition is called which in turn calls the actual Windows 7 OS partition.
Ok, currently I prepared three partition on my hard disc:
- 40 GB for Win7
- 100 MB for Bootmanager
- 500 GB for data
When I installed now recently 64bit Win 7 Pro everything was put on the first 40 GB partition.
The installation procedure did not ask where to put the Bootmanager.
Where is it?
Is Bootmanager only created/established when a SECOND OS is installed on the hard disc?
Thank you for answers
Peter
At old WinXP times the bootmanager was put into the first bootable partition on the first hard disc.
This partition could contain the actual Windows XP itself in addition.
From Win7 times on Bootmanager should be installed in a separate (only 100 MB small) additional primary partition.
When booting the system at first this Bootmanager "meta" partition is called which in turn calls the actual Windows 7 OS partition.
Ok, currently I prepared three partition on my hard disc:
- 40 GB for Win7
- 100 MB for Bootmanager
- 500 GB for data
When I installed now recently 64bit Win 7 Pro everything was put on the first 40 GB partition.
The installation procedure did not ask where to put the Bootmanager.
Where is it?
Is Bootmanager only created/established when a SECOND OS is installed on the hard disc?
Thank you for answers
Peter