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

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Mon Jan 7 10:34:50 EST 2013


Hi Phil,

I tried googling around on this for a while but couldn't find anything conclusive.  I could be wrong about this, but, I would be willing to bet an entirely trivial amount of money that, if you install Win XP on bare metal on a 4K drive, with the 1st partition starting at sector 2048, that you won't be able to boot unless you replace the boot loader with the one from Vista, 7, or something like Grub.  (My English teacher would love that sentence.)  I have no way to try this however, so, unless someone tries it or knows the answer, it may remain a mystery.

Sincerely,

Ron


Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:

<snip>

>
>At the boot phase in the VM, WinXP can't distinguish between a
>bare-metal setup and a VM.  I'm certain the aligned partition would
>work
>just fine on bare metal.
>



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