[ale] If you own (almost) ANY HDD, repartition with 4k boundaries

[Phil Turmel]

On 01/07/2013 10:34 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> I tried googling around on this for a while but couldn't find
> anything conclusive.  I could be wrong about this, but, I would be
> willing to bet an entirely trivial amount of money that, if you
> install Win XP on bare metal on a 4K drive, with the 1st partition
> starting at sector 2048, that you won't be able to boot unless you
> replace the boot loader with the one from Vista, 7, or something like
> Grub.  (My English teacher would love that sentence.)  I have no way
> to try this however, so, unless someone tries it or knows the answer,
> it may remain a mystery.

Thanks to this list, I have M350 mini-itx HTPC parts coming soon.  I can
do a quick test of XP to settle this before I put the real system on it
(MythTV frontend).

I'd consider the cost of a beverage of choice after the next meeting to
be trivial enough. :-)

Phil