Title: RE: Move NTFS partitions ?

> From: Szakacsits Szabolcs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, David Balazic wrote:
>
> > When will parted support moving ntfs partitions?
> > Moving shouldn't change the content anyway, so it should
> > be simply. Or am I missing something ?
>
> If the partition is a boot/system partition then
>
>  - the "hidden sectors" field in the BPB must be adjusted accordingly
>
>  - if the place of the new partition changes in the partition
> table then
>    additional modifications are needed e.g. to boot.ini, etc

Yes, but this is true for FAT too, isn't it ?
 
>  - files and the related NTFS metadata used during boot must be in the
>    actually set BIOS addressable range
>
>       Szaka
>

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