Creating bootable zip disk

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:59 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> I have no idea why Iomega  used partition 4 instead of partition 1.
> 
> Probably used to avoid drive letter shuffling on Windows systems.  All
> the primary partitions get the first letters on something like Win98,
> which can re-letter your other partitions, depending on where the Zip
> drive is connected amongst all your IDE ports.  Extended partitions get
> letters after the primary partitions, so none of your primary partitions
> should get shuffled, though some of your extended ones might.  At the
> very least, it shouldn't stop you from booting.
> 
Nice idea. The only problem is that partition 4 was still a primary
partition. But I think removable drives were handled differently.
The Iomega utilities would let you set the drive letter for the ZIP
drive the same way you can for CD/DVD drives.

Mikkel
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