Greetings - My holiday project is to do some upgrading of my personal confuser (P4, 2.8 mHz, 2 GB RAM). I have an 80 GB HD with Win XP SP2 that I only occasionally open and use and a second 80 GB hard drive with Linux. I partitioned the Windows installation with Partition Magic 8 to have C: operating system (8GB); D: FAT16 (500 MB at the beginning of the second HD); E: a FAT32 sharing partiion; F: NTFS Apps: and G: NTFS Data. I need to increase the size of the C: partition and have plenty of room to do so. However, PM8 gives me the follwing message:
"Resizing or moving an operating system beyond the 1024 cylinder boundary may make the computer unbootable. Due to INT13 BIOS limitations on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover from this situation ..." I seem to recall that this applies only to DOS operating systems and early Windows NT but I spend so little time in a Windows environment that I 'm not sure that I'm remembering accurately. I think that I can safely increase the size of my C: partition (I'll back up my data, of course). Am I right? TIA Kelly J. Morris ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
