Whether and how you can use the boot manager depends on ...
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Whether and how you can use the boot manager depends on:

  1. which operating system you want to install
  2. which file system has been created on the active start partition (usually thus drive C:\)
  3. which file system is created in the partition into which the new system is to be installed
The following table gives an overview of possible combinations:

system
you want to
install		 file system
of the
start partition		 installation target
start partition other primary partition other extended partition
FAT16 FAT32 NTFS LINUX FAT16 FAT32 NTFS
DOS FAT16 Yes Yes No No No Yes No No
FAT32 No Yes No No No No No No
NTFS No Yes1) No No No No No No
LINUX No Yes1) No No No No No No
WIN95A FAT16 Yes Yes No No No Yes No No
FAT32 No Yes No No No No No No
NTFS No Yes1) No No No No No No
LINUX No Yes1) No No No No No No
WIN95B
WIN95C
WIN98
WINME		 FAT16 Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
FAT32 Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
NTFS No Yes1) Yes1) No No No No No
LINUX No Yes1) Yes1) No No No No No
NT 4.0 FAT16 Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
FAT32 No Yes No Yes No No No No
NTFS Yes Yes1) No Yes2) No Yes2) No Yes2)
LINUX No Yes1) No Yes2) No No No No
WIN2000
WINXP		 FAT16 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
FAT32 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
NTFS Yes Yes1) Yes1) Yes2) No Yes2) Yes2) Yes2)
LINUX No Yes1) Yes1) Yes2) No No No No
OS/2 FAT16 Yes Yes No Yes3) No Yes No Yes3)
FAT32 No Yes No Yes3) No No No No
HPFS Yes Yes1) No Yes2,3) No Yes2) No Yes2,3)
LINUX No Yes1) No Yes2,3) No No No No
LINUX
SOLARIS		 FAT16 No No No No Yes No No No
FAT32 No No No No Yes No No No
NTFS No No No No Yes2) No No No
LINUX Yes2) No No No Yes2) No No No
system
you want to
install		 file system
of the
start partition		 start partition FAT16 FAT32 NTFS LINUX FAT16 FAT32 NTFS
other primary partition other extended partition
installation target

1) MSTBOOT must be installed into this partition
2) Installation is possible, but you cannot use MSTBOOT
3) HPFS

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© 1995-2004 Olaf H. Barth, edited by Peter R Green, Last change: 21 may 2005