I don't *think* this affects modern systems, but I'm only speaking from personal experience, I really don't know. I last (2-3 years) used Partition Magic/PQboot to install a Win2k partition way at the end of my drive and it had no trouble booting. I think it's still there but I haven't tried to boot to it in ages.
You've got way too many partitions and not nearly enough disk space. Get a cheap 250g drive (~$80) and make just two partitions - 10% for Windows and the rest for apps. Keep all your data on the C: drive and keep that imaged regularly. If you really find yourself needing to share a lot of data with Linux, use a flash drive or put that FAT partition on the second/removable Linux drive. On Dec 23, 2007 8:39 PM, Kelly Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ..." ************************************************************************ * ==> 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 ************************************************************************
