System Reserved Partitions on PowerPCs
Article ID: 154855
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q154855
SUMMARY
When you configure partitions during the text mode portion of Setup on the
PowerPC (Motorola PowerStack) platform, you will see a small partition
marked:
The size may vary, but typically, it will be a small partition. It will not
be assigned a drive letter.
MORE INFORMATION
On the PowerPC platform, a special partition is created that contains the
system firmware. Under no conditions should this partition be deleted. If
you delete this partition, the computer will be unbootable. This partition
is separate from the normal RISC architecture system partition that
contains files needed to start the operating system. On RISC machines, the
system partition should always be FAT. If the "System Reserved" partition
is accidentally deleted or damaged, contact the hardware vendor for
utilities and instructions on how to re-create it.
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