Darrell, Thanks for the reply. You're correct in understanding my request. I
didn't think it was a "no-cost" option, just much easier than solving for the
system disk. Just bear in mind (for any SP) that there are situations that a
GPT boot disk would ease.
""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" wrote:
> Hello,
> Well he is asking for the boot partiton ( the one \Windows is on) not the
> system partition ( the one the system boots from)
> so it's not really a bios issue. If the ask was for the "system" partition
> then the bios would come into play.
> We really it's the disk not the partition or volume that is MBR or GPT. So
> the ask is that "system" partition be located on a GPT disk rather than a
> MBR disk. So the bios still points to the MBR disk to boot from, then the
> bootmanager\BCD points to \windows on the GPT disk.
> Let's point first to the this link:
> EFI and Windows Vista
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system.../efibrief.mspx
>
> But it's not that easy to just enable the "boot" disk.
> There are a lot of things that come into play that need testing and
> potentially modifications when dealing with the new disk types.
> Just to mention a couple:
> For example deployment and imaging would have to take into account variable
> disk types
> Bitlocker would have to work with both disk types.
> It is planned as per the link above, it just won't make this release.
>
> Thanks,
> Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
>
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> < From what I have read about GPT your "suggestion" may not
> <be feasible with BIOS based systems. GPT is a feature of
> <the EFI specifications. So, if it's a feature of EFI, how
> <would you implement a bootable GPT in a BIOS environment?
> <
> <There was an article on the internet this past week that
> <explained EFI and GPT quite well, but I can find the article
> <now.
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> <> This is a rephrase of a question I had asked, but now as a suggestion:
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> <> Currently Vista client does not allow a GPT partition as either a system
> or
> <> a boot partition. I can understand the motivation for delaying support
> for
> <> the System Partition (the one you boot from), since the interactions
> with
> <> (the lack of) EFI support is problematic, but the boot partition (the
> one you
> <> put the system on) should be allowed to be a GPT Partition, since all
> the
> <> bootup file processing is complete before using the OS. This will remove
> the
> <> need for artificial partitioning schemes on >2TB arrays.
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