Re: PartitionMagic v8.01 to merge partitions & the 1024 cylinder limit

From: Daniel Ganek (ganek_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:28:24 -0400

Ryan Cabanas wrote:
> I just bought PartitionMagic v8.01. I have a Sony Vaio laptop that
> came with Windows XP Home on it and the 20GB hard drive was broken
> into 6GB on the boot C: drive and the remaining is on the D: drive. I
> wanted to merge the two together and since I couldn't do it with XP
> (because the C: drive is the boot partition), I found I needed
> PartitionMagic.
>
> So I'm reading through the manual for PartitionMagic and I run across
> this 1024 cylinder limit, or something about a 2GB or 8GB limit. If I
> just want to merge my boot partition (C: drive) and my D: drive, will
> this be a problem? Will I have some kind of booting problem, that the
> manual speaks of? I purchased my laptop in February 2001, so it's not
> THAT old, but is it still a possible problem? XP Home is the only OS
> I'm running on this system. Thanks.
>
> Ryan Cabanas

Those limits refer to older (much older) BIOS's. Go ahead and try it.

/dan

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