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1.11.2 System Partitions
To install Windows NT, a system partition must be defined. If no system
partition is found, the user is asked to choose from the available FAT partitions.
The purpose of the system partition is twofold. First, it tells the Windows NT
installation program where to place the OS Loader and hardware support files.
Second, upon subsequent restarts of Windows NT, the system partition
definition tells AlphaBIOS where the OSLOADER.EXE file is so it can
successfully hand off control to the OS Loader and continue the boot process.
The system partition can be the same partition into which Windows NT is
installed, or it can be separate. However, the system partition must be
formatted with the FAT file system. Because the default recommended partition
arrangement on Alpha calls for the partition into which Windows NT is
installed to be an NTFS partition, the system partition will almost always be a
small FAT partition on the same disk onto which Windows NT is installed.
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