Talk:System partition and boot partition

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Redirect or Merge?

I recommend that this short article be merged into or simply redirected to either Booting or Windows NT Startup Process or some similar page. I feel that the information should be consolidated, not scattered through a myriad of short, specific articles. The creature of this page disagrees with me. I leave the discussion here for consensus. The article System partition carries my same recommendation. Ryanjunk 19:05, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strongly agree. I've provisionally merged the two articles, but I feel they should be merged to a larger article. --Muchness 19:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The consensus on both Talk:Booting and Talk:Windows NT Startup Process is not to merge. The former discussion gives some especially good reasons why this should not be merged into a Windows-specific article or into an article on booting in general. Uncle G 13:15, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification of terms

It seems that the "system partition" actually does the booting and is what linux calls the "boot partition". In other words, Windows and Linux name these things in opposite ways. It would be useful if an expert could clarify that in the article. 15.203.249.124 (talk) 10:45, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MBR location

According to the Master boot record article, MBR, quote, "is not located in a partition, it is located at a Main Boot Record area in front of the first partition". This article, however, says that "the system partition is a disk partition that contains the master boot record, ..." etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.161.94.9 (talk) 05:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, the article is wrong. Appears that the MBR has been confused with the boot sector. Socrates2008 (Talk) 05:34, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]