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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 -- When replying by Email include NewSGrouP (case sensitive) in Subject Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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"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? |
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