| | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:06:07 +0100 | | From | Michal Soltys <> | | Subject | Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. |
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues > > Excellent summary. > >> C-2. Windows XP depends on the traditional partition layout. > > Is this really true? WD ships their EARS drives with an alignment tool > that as far as I can understand, moves the partition so > it's aligned to 4KiB: >
XP SP2 (or later) can boot from any place, including logical partitions (tested that recently). Most important thing is "hidden sectors" (recent chain.c32 can set that automatically through ntldr and/or sethidden options). No idea about pre-SP2 ; Win 2000 will not boot from "misaligned" (with reference to cylinder boundary) partition.
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