[ILUG] Problems installing Win XP Pro after FE3

Niall Sheridan niall at blacknight.ie
Wed Apr 27 12:48:25 IST 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 11:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Wed 27 Apr 2005 00:30, Ger Donohue wrote:
> 
> > Try and keep the windows partition under 8 GB and the first primary
> > partition.
> 
> Why try to keep it under 8GB, as a matter of interest?

Historically (before Windows NT4 SP4), Windows NT's ATAPI.SYS couldn't
see disks of over 8GB. This hasn't been a problem for years though.

~ Niall



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