Re: Why PC Disks Should Not be Divided intoPartitions

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From: Al Stangenberger (forags@nature.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 18:52:29 PDT

An additional caveat regarding NT systems is that the system partition size
should not exceed 7.8
gigabytes. See article Q224526 on the Microsoft knowledge base.

(yes, it is possible to install NT on a larger partition, but if any of the
boot code gets relocated
past the 7.8-gig area it will not be accessible to the boot process. See
article Q246507.
This can be a real nasty problem to fix....)

-AL Stangenberger

At 06:20 PM 10/7/02 -0700, John Kelly wrote:
>Greg,
>
>You are not just an old fuddy-duddy. You are just old enough to remember
>the pain of having a disaster hit a one-big-partition disk.
>
>Case in point: we recently had a meltdown of an NT box containing MS SQL
>and a database. Getting it thing going again required re-installing NT.
>Now as it happened we were able to do that without munging the original
>installation, but our minds were eased by knowing that even if we did
>munge drive C:, all the data would be intact, because it was on drive
>D:--a different partition. 

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Al Stangenberger                  Univ. of California at Berkeley
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