How to tell where Windows is booting from

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From: DARKCYBER (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04


Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:28:28 -0700

I'm trying to setup my second raid 0 in my pc and I'm
copying my current C: partition to my new raid 0 and want
to make it my main boot partition and hard drive.

How can I check to see where Windows XP is actually
booting from?

I use to have it written down, but can't find it anywhere.

TIA!



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