partition magic OS partition problem

did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024 cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS limitations on
some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover from this
situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it on my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net would be
appreciated

Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster size
and waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the issue
and go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my
drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024
cylinder boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS
limitations on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to
recover from this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it on
my system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net
would be appreciated

"Pen" wrote in message
...
Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster size and
waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the issue and
go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024 cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS limitations
on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover from
this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it on my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net would
be appreciated



ok thanks very much

i am using NTFS on all partitions

Some OSs (most notably WinNT) will not load boot files that are beyond 1024 cylinders. This limitation does not exist with WinXP.

Christo wrote:

did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024 cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS limitations on
some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover from this
situation

blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it on my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net would be
appreciated

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"Christo" wrote in message
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"Pen" wrote in message
...
Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster size
and
waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the issue
and
go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my
drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024
cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS
limitations
on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover from
this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it on my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net
would
be appreciated



ok thanks very much

i am using NTFS on all partitions

What version of Partition Magic do you have? You need to use v8
for XP's flavour of NTFS.
HTH
--
Rob

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Pen" wrote in message
...
Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster size
and
waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the issue
and
go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my
drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024
cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS
limitations
on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover
from
this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it on
my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net
would
be appreciated



ok thanks very much

i am using NTFS on all partitions

What version of Partition Magic do you have? You need to use v8
for XP's flavour of NTFS.
HTH
--
Rob



i beieve symantec took over partition magic

i have powerquest v8.0

still gettin the msaage though

i think i will probably go ahead and do it

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Pen" wrote in message
...
Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster
size
and
waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the issue
and
go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my
drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024
cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS
limitations
on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover
from
this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it on
my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net
would
be appreciated



ok thanks very much

i am using NTFS on all partitions

What version of Partition Magic do you have? You need to use v8
for XP's flavour of NTFS.
HTH
--
Rob



i beieve symantec took over partition magic

i have powerquest v8.0

still gettin the msaage though

i think i will probably go ahead and do it

I'm almost certain that it'll work just fine. That PM 'error' message is
really just for info. and would only come into play if you wanted to
dual-boot. As it's a fresh install you can always start over, so go for it.
HTH
--
Rob

Do you have the 8.01 patch + the 1513 or something patch. The original 8.0
version I found tended to stuff up all the time. If you've got 8.02 or 8.05
then you're set.

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Pen" wrote in message
...
Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster
size
and
waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the
issue
and
go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of my
drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024
cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS
limitations
on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover
from
this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it
on
my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the net
would
be appreciated



ok thanks very much

i am using NTFS on all partitions

What version of Partition Magic do you have? You need to use v8
for XP's flavour of NTFS.
HTH
--
Rob



i beieve symantec took over partition magic

i have powerquest v8.0

still gettin the msaage though

i think i will probably go ahead and do it

I'm almost certain that it'll work just fine. That PM 'error' message is
really just for info. and would only come into play if you wanted to
dual-boot. As it's a fresh install you can always start over, so go for
it.
HTH
--
Rob

"Tasslehoff" wrote in message
...
Do you have the 8.01 patch + the 1513 or something patch. The original
8.0 version I found tended to stuff up all the time. If you've got 8.02
or 8.05 then you're set.

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Pen" wrote in message
...
Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster
size
and
waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the
issue
and
go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of
my
drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024
cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS
limitations
on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover
from
this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self
built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it
on
my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the
net
would
be appreciated



ok thanks very much

i am using NTFS on all partitions

What version of Partition Magic do you have? You need to use v8
for XP's flavour of NTFS.
HTH
--
Rob



i beieve symantec took over partition magic

i have powerquest v8.0

still gettin the msaage though

i think i will probably go ahead and do it

I'm almost certain that it'll work just fine. That PM 'error' message
is
really just for info. and would only come into play if you wanted to
dual-boot. As it's a fresh install you can always start over, so go for
it.
HTH
--
Rob





no it is just 8.0 build 1242

"Tasslehoff" wrote in message
...
Do you have the 8.01 patch + the 1513 or something patch. The original
8.0 version I found tended to stuff up all the time. If you've got 8.02
or 8.05 then you're set.

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Rob Hemmings" wrote in message
...

"Christo" wrote in message
...

"Pen" wrote in message
...
Shouldn't be an issue with your machine. Any BIOS that can
deal with an 80 GB drive will be just fine. If you're using FAT32
then going from below 8 GB to over that will increase the cluster
size
and
waste
space. Therefore lots of people stay at 8 GB or just ignore the
issue
and
go
for a large partition.

"Christo" wrote in message
...
did a fresh install of windows XP home with sp2 slipstreamed

had problems installing flat on 80gb maxtor ATA133 hdd

anyhow second time round i partitioned off 3 GB

installed it in there works cool

i then used partition magic to create a partition on the rest of
my
drive

i now want to extend the original 3 gb partition to about 10 GB

however when i take it past 8 gb i get a problem like this....

resizing or moving an operating system parition beyond the 1024
cylinder
boundary may make the computer unbootable, due to INT13 BIOS
limitations
on some machines, your rescue diskettes may not be able to recover
from
this situation


blah blah blah

do you want to continue?

my machine is pretty new (msi ky6v athlon 2600+ etc etc self
built)

is this something to do with old bios? and will it be ok to do it
on
my
system?

if no one can give me an answer links to relevant topics on the
net
would
be appreciated



ok thanks very much

i am using NTFS on all partitions

What version of Partition Magic do you have? You need to use v8
for XP's flavour of NTFS.
HTH
--
Rob



i beieve symantec took over partition magic

i have powerquest v8.0

still gettin the msaage though

i think i will probably go ahead and do it

I'm almost certain that it'll work just fine. That PM 'error' message
is
really just for info. and would only come into play if you wanted to
dual-boot. As it's a fresh install you can always start over, so go for
it.
HTH
--
Rob





where can i get the patches? are they free?