Re: Off-topic Win 2K stability

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

ON 10/29/03, Jordan wrote: "My W2K partitions are 10 & 14. ... BOOT.INI
now mysteriously pointed to partitions 9 & 13."
Don't computers count from zero, rather than one? (There's even an
ordinal, zeroth.) Now sometimes, if some kind soul wrote the
human-machine interface, that gets translated into the 1, 2, 3 that
humans expect, but I've seen BIOSes that resolutely numbered drive
partitions, com ports, and memory sockets 0, 1, 2, etc. It rather looks
as if between the BIOS, the bootloader, and the opsyses, the numbering
schemes have gotten out of sync. How one would go about resolving that, I
haven't a clue. But Windows--even 98SE--strives mightily to take over a
lot of BIOS chores.
Patricia