48 bit LBA and Recovery Console

[Guest]

Hi,

I just got a 160GB hard drive for my Windows XP Home system. I have an OEM Windows XP Home CD (w/o SP1). To use the new drive, I installed XP then applied SP1, then using Partition Magic resized the partition to 160GB. However, I'm concerned that if I ever have to boot using the Recovery Console on my non-SP1 CD, I would corrupt my partition if I made any changes to the filesystem.

Does anyone know if the Recovery Console from a non-SP1 Windows XP CD would corrupt a 48-bit LBA partition?

Thanks!
Ken Schenke

 

[CS]

Hi,

I just got a 160GB hard drive for my Windows XP Home system. I have an OEM Windows XP Home CD (w/o SP1). To use the new drive, I installed XP then applied SP1, then using Partition Magic resized the partition to 160GB. However, I'm concerned that if I ever have to boot using the Recovery Console on my non-SP1 CD, I would corrupt my partition if I made any changes to the filesystem.

Does anyone know if the Recovery Console from a non-SP1 Windows XP CD would corrupt a 48-bit LBA partition?

Thanks!
Ken Schenke

When you use the Recovery Console, it should not remove or alter any
of the updates you have already made to the system. That would
include SP-1. However, if you use the REPAIR function when booting
from the CD, it will revert your system back to pre SP-1 and that may
cause file corruption.

 

[Ken Schenke]

-----Original Message-----

system. I have an OEM Windows XP Home CD (w/o SP1). To
use the new drive, I installed XP then applied SP1, then
using Partition Magic resized the partition to 160GB.
However, I'm concerned that if I ever have to boot using
the Recovery Console on my non-SP1 CD, I would corrupt my
partition if I made any changes to the filesystem.

When you use the Recovery Console, it should not remove or alter any
of the updates you have already made to the system. That would
include SP-1. However, if you use the REPAIR function when booting
from the CD, it will revert your system back to pre SP-1 and that may
cause file corruption.

I'm concerned that if I make changes to the filesystem
while in the recovery console, such as changing or moving
files around, it would corrupt the filesystem if it
doesn't using 48-bit LBA.

Thanks!