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Title: root directory
Post by: d-boy22 on June 16, 2011, 12:05:38 PM

ok, simple question here. correct if im wrong but windows 7 has a root directory of c:/windows ... so what is the equivalent for windows xp? is it c:/winnt or c:/windows?

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: Allan on June 16, 2011, 12:24:39 PM

To the best of my knowledge, by default all versions of Windows install to C:\Windows. Certainly XP does.

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: d-boy22 on June 16, 2011, 01:24:11 PM

Alright thanks. I know windows 2000 had a was different than windows vista and 7. but i wasnt sure if windows xp was the same.

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: Computer_Commando on June 16, 2011, 01:44:57 PM

Quote from: d-boy22 on June 16, 2011, 01:24:11 PM

Alright thanks. I know windows 2000 had a was different than windows vista and 7. but i wasnt sure if windows xp was the same.

Win2k Windows directory default was named WINNT

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: Allan on June 16, 2011, 01:48:46 PM

Well, there you go - the one version of Window I never even saw let alone used.

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: Computer_Commando on June 16, 2011, 01:55:37 PM

I think it was the same for NT4.0 & NT3.51

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: Allan on June 16, 2011, 02:07:00 PM

You're probably right. I went from DOS to Win 3 to 3.1, 95, 98, XP, Vista & 7. So in fact I guess I lied - never used NT either :)

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: Salmon Trout on June 16, 2011, 02:20:52 PM

Just a point - the "root" directory of a disk is the top folder, so that the root directory of drive C for example C:\. The folder where you find the Windows files is the system root folder and is pointed to by the system variable %systemroot% in all NT family OSs and is preferable to hard coding a particular folder name if you want applicability across all Windows NT derived OSs. The change from WINNT to Windows was in Windows 2000 Server.

Title: Re: root directory
Post by: Computer_Commando on June 16, 2011, 04:28:56 PM

Quote from: Allan on June 16, 2011, 02:07:00 PM

You're probably right. I went from DOS to Win 3 to 3.1, 95, 98, XP, Vista & 7. So in fact I guess I lied - never used NT either :)

The so-called "Professional" versions were C:\WINNT, i.e. WinNT3.51, WinNT4.0, Win2kPro
The so-called "Home" versions were all C:\Windows, i.e. Win3.1, Win95, Win98, WinME
Don't know about Win3.11 (Windows for Workgroups)

WinNT didn't even have support for FAT32!!

Operating system   Supported file systems
   -----------------------------------------

   MS-DOS             FAT
   Windows 3.1        FAT
   Windows NT         FAT, NTFS
   Windows 95         FAT
   Windows 95 OSR2    FAT, FAT32
   Windows 98         FAT, FAT32
   Windows Me         FAT, FAT32
   Windows 2000       FAT, FAT32, NTFS
   Windows XP         FAT, FAT32, NTFS