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[ale] If you own (almost) ANY HDD, repartition with 4k boundaries
- Subject: [ale] If you own (almost) ANY HDD, repartition with 4k boundaries
- From: philip at turmel.org (Phil Turmel)
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:01:46 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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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