Where to place Primary partitions?

[Bob H]

Ok, I've got 2 primary partitions on HD0 ath beggining of the drive.
I installed Win2k first, then installed WinXP on 2 separate partitions,
and WinXP is on the first partition, then win2k on the second one.
I also have a Linux distro on HD1
I use a bootmanger to load each OS as I wish.

I have increased the size of my Win2k partition from 5Gb to 8.9Gb, and I
was going to do the same with my winxp partition until I realised that
if I did that then my Win2k OS would be moved to the right of 1024
cylinder boundary, so then I wondered if win2k would still boot?

Any thoughts, anyone?
Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

Normally shouldn't be an issue.

Setup Does Not Check for INT-13 Extensions Before Creating System Partition
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q240672

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| Ok, I've got 2 primary partitions on HD0 ath beggining of the drive.
| I installed Win2k first, then installed WinXP on 2 separate partitions,
| and WinXP is on the first partition, then win2k on the second one.
| I also have a Linux distro on HD1
| I use a bootmanger to load each OS as I wish.
|
| I have increased the size of my Win2k partition from 5Gb to 8.9Gb, and I
| was going to do the same with my winxp partition until I realised that
| if I did that then my Win2k OS would be moved to the right of 1024
| cylinder boundary, so then I wondered if win2k would still boot?
|
| Any thoughts, anyone?
| Thanks
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| Bob H
| Leeds UK

 

[Bob H]

Normally shouldn't be an issue.

Setup Does Not Check for INT-13 Extensions Before Creating System Partition
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q240672

Thanks, but I am not sure I understand that correctly. I know it says
that setup does not check for INT-13 Extensions etc and to me, that
seems to be a problem, as it gives symptoms, cause and resolution.
All my partitions are NTFS, and I don't want to re install anything
again by doing something that won't let an OS boot.

Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

Check your mobo and or system bios manual to verify that it supports INT-13
Extensions.

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| Thanks, but I am not sure I understand that correctly. I know it says
| that setup does not check for INT-13 Extensions etc and to me, that
| seems to be a problem, as it gives symptoms, cause and resolution.
| All my partitions are NTFS, and I don't want to re install anything
| again by doing something that won't let an OS boot.
|
| Thanks
|
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| Bob H
| Leeds UK

 

[Bob H]

Check your mobo and or system bios manual to verify that it supports INT-13
Extensions.

Just had a look through my mobo manual, and it doesn't say that it
supports INT-13 Extensions, so I guess it doesn't.
So that could mean that if I extended my winxp partition from 5Gb to
8.9Gb, it would then push my Win2k partition past the 1024 cylinder
boundary, and maybe not boot???

Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

Unless it is quite old I would guess that it does support INT-13 Extensions.
They probably all have since year 2000 or so.

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| Just had a look through my mobo manual, and it doesn't say that it
| supports INT-13 Extensions, so I guess it doesn't.
| So that could mean that if I extended my winxp partition from 5Gb to
| 8.9Gb, it would then push my Win2k partition past the 1024 cylinder
| boundary, and maybe not boot???
|
| Thanks
|
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| Bob H
| Leeds UK

 

[Bob H]

Unless it is quite old I would guess that it does support INT-13 Extensions.
They probably all have since year 2000 or so.

Well, it is an Asus A7N8X-X Rev 2.0, and is about 12/15 months old now
at a guess

 

[Dave Patrick]

You might ask them here to confirm.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus

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"Bob H"wrote:
| Well, it is an Asus A7N8X-X Rev 2.0, and is about 12/15 months old now
| at a guess
|
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| Bob H
| Leeds UK

 

[Dan Seur]

There's no question that your Asus board supports int13 extensions.
Since you seem to be using a 3rd party partitioning utility, why not
just try what you want to do with that XP partition? If it won't boot
you can just restore the original size. (I'm assuming you've got a
diskette-bootable partitioning utility here, such as PartitionMagic.)