Partitioning question

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Sean

Hi

When booting from a Windows 2000 Server or XP Pro CDROM and creating
partitions I have this strange issue.

When all partitions are removed and I create a partition everything is
fine. If there is an existing partition and I create a new primary
partition for the OS Windows keeps creating an 8mb partition at the
start of the drive, this has happened the same way on different
machines with different operating systems.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them or know why it happens?

Regards

Sean
 
What type of partition is the existing partition and what is the file
system on it. W2K and XP need an active primary partition to boot from,
so it must be a partition type that it can read: FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS5

hth
 
Sean, I can't say that I've seen this before. Often times, NTx setup
will leave a small amount of unallocated space at the *end* of the
drive, but I've never seen the exact behavior you are experiencing.

After you've installed the OS, what does Disk Management show for this
small 8MB partition??
 
W2K has a boot code boundary limit of 8GB meaning that the system must be located within the 1st 8GB partition however only a few files must reside on that partition. The boot code boundary limit can be exceeded on a hard drive with an LBA-compatible MBR. See the following link for partitioning info under boot partition size limit. http://www.bitzenbytes.com/101/c110-partition.htm
 
Phillipe, you are confusing W2K with NT4. NT4 had that limit, not W2K.
 
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