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NTFS fi le systems. Other Windows operating systems use FAT16 or FAT32 and cannot
recognize NTFS. All Windows-based operating systems can recognize FAT partitions.
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If you will dual-boot with Windows 9x, you must turn off disk compression or
Windows 7 will not be able to read the drive properly.
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Do not install Windows 7 on a compressed volume unless the volume was compressed
using NTFS compression.
Once you have installed each operating system, you can choose the operating system
that you will boot to during the boot process. You will see a boot-selection screen that asks
you to choose which operating system you want to boot.
The Boot Confi guration Data (BCD) store contains boot information parameters that
were previously found in
boot.ini in older versions of Windows. To edit the boot options
in the BCD store, use the
bcdedit utility, which can be launched only from a command
prompt. To open a command prompt window, you can do the following:
1. Launch \Windows\system32\cmd.exe.
2. Open the Run command by pressing the [Windows] key + R and then entering cmd.
3. Type cmd.exe in the Search Programs And Files box and press Enter.
Once the command-prompt window is open, type
bcdedit to launch the bcdedit utility.
You can also type
bcdedit/? to see all the different bcdedit commands. A few bcdedit
commands may be needed when dual-booting a machine. Table 1.5 shows some of the
bcdedit commands that may be needed when dual-booting.
TABLE 1.5 Bcdedit commands for dual-booting
Command Explanation
/createstore Creates a new empty boot configuration data store.
/default Allows you to specify which operating system will start when the
time-out expires.
/deletevalue
Allows you to delete a specified element from a boot entry.
/displayorder Shows the display order that the boot manager uses when showing
the display order to the user.
/export Allows you to export the contents of the system store into a file.
/import Restores the system store by using the data file previously generated
by using the
/export option.
/set
Allows you to set an entry option value.
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