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An ide hdd has spun up to operating speed before the post process finished, which isnt even to device initialization, which is still before booting, so both flash and ide will be primed to go by the time the system is ready to start booting an os. Win98Lite (or something similarly small) would probably see the greatest results from being loaded from flash, as there are still numerous files that have to be loaded to ram, but the footprint of those files are tiny compared to xp.
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