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Hi, guys.

I think about creating bootloader on HDD which will get me support to load Windows. See:
My first partition on C: is FAT32 formatted with my own bootloader. On the sector right after boot is written Windows bootsector. I have boot menu with which I can load my OS from any partition of any drive (like a Windows one) and If I have Windows installed on some partition - I write it to my boot menu. Then during loading I select Windows item and bootloader do the next:
1. Load to 0x7C00 the next sector after bootsector in C: (which is Windows bootsector).
2. Goes down into real mode.
3. Jump to 0x7C00.

Is it normal? Or is there some another way?

Daniel.

It's normal, but in FAT32 after boot sector usually is stored the FSINFO structure (sector #1). You can use sector #6 for that purpose, because right there is stored backup copy of the Windows boot sector.

oh... yeah, I forgot. Thanks.