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Partition Magic Question

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Churnd

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I'm trying to create a few partitions with Partition Magic 8.0 on my 20 gig hard drive. However, it's telling me it might not be bootable if I shrink the first partition below the 1024 cylinder boundary, which seems to be a little less than half of the disk size. What's the deal?
 
Older BIOSes couldn't read past the 1024th cylinder so it made it impossible to boot from a partition that far down the disk. Whether it will be a problem for you depends on how old the machine is and how old the OS is.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Older BIOSes couldn't read past the 1024th cylinder so it made it impossible to boot from a partition that far down the disk. Whether it will be a problem for you depends on how old the machine is and how old the OS is.
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The computer is about 3 years old, but with the most recent BIOS, and I'm running a fully updated XP Pro.
 
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