John Rumm wrote:

On 23/08/2010 15:39, robgraham wrote:

I take it then that this suggestion from 'a
friend' is incorrect
"All NTFS formatted drives still require to have a FAT 16/32 partition
(or 2) to facilitate boot-up. Bios's can't read NTFS because it is
requires the OS (Windows or otherwise) to be loaded first. " ??

That's out of date. You can have all NTFS if you like now.

I don't think it ever was in date, even NT3.1 would boot from a single
NTFS partition (or on an ALPHA that didn't have BIOS or run any O/S that
used FAT16/32)