[lug] Dual Boot with Windows XP

[J. Wayde Allen]

On 3 Jul 2002, Hugh Brown wrote:

> The last 8M is because MS is braindead about its partitioning. 
> I have never had any success using MS partitioning tools (at install
> time anyway) to claim that last 8M.  It just refuses to do it.

That is interesting!

> You aren't going to miss 32MB so I would leave it alone, shrink the XP
> down to 4-5gigs and then use the rest for linux.
> 
> On my laptop, I have a "Dell Utility" partition listed as /dev/hda1 with
> a size of 32MB.
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1             1         4     32098+  de  Dell Utility

Makes sense, and it looks like I have the same partition.  Of course, I'm
still wondering what this partition contains?  Any reason I should keep
it?

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)