[ale] If you own (almost) ANY HDD, repartition with 4k boundaries

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Sat Jan 5 19:01:46 EST 2013


Hi Ron,

Great summary!  One comment:

On 01/03/2013 09:00 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:

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> I should note that you don't want to do this with Windows XP from what
> I've read.  It expects the 1st partition to be at 63, period.

Windows XP will choke if you *move* an existing boot partition.
However, if you properly partition new drive yourself, it'll *install*
just fine to a partition starting at the 1MB position.

I have a couple VMs running this way with no issues.

Phil


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