{"id":182,"date":"2004-10-19T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/installation-of-win9x-me-requires-a-primary-partition\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:11:19","slug":"installation-of-win9x-me-requires-a-primary-partition","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/installation-of-win9x-me-requires-a-primary-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation of Win9x\/ME Requires a Primary Partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows 9x\/ME boot files must (normally) be located in a primary partition on the first hard drive (HD0).&nbsp; The bulk of the OS can be installed on any drive, including extended partition volumes.<\/p>\r\n  <p>Installation of the boot files to a non-primary partition&nbsp;is outside the scope of this article and should only be attempted by those skilled enough to not need this article.<\/p>\r\n  <p>For information on how to install Win9x\/ME completely to another hard drive when using BootIt Bare Metal please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Completely Install Win9x\/ME to an Alternate Hard Drive<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows 9x\/ME boot files must (normally) be located in a primary partition on the first hard drive (HD0).&nbsp; The bulk of the OS can be installed on any drive, including extended partition volumes. Installation of the boot files to a non-primary partition&nbsp;is outside the scope of this article and should only be attempted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1781],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2138],"class_list":["post-182","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-9x-me","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-9x-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/182\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}